Sunday, May 29, 2011

May 29

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United Statescolonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13thU.S. state. Big Star Thirteen #1 Record / Radio City
2. 1848 Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state. Marthe Hinny Oh! Oh! Oui, oui, oui... Ultra Chicks, Vol. 3. Baby Pop!
3. 1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot. Rites of Spring Spring End on End
4. 1919 Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse inPrincipe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, CearáBrazil. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Relative Ways Source Tags and Codes
5. 1931 Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele "Mike" Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for INTENT to kill Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Mike Schirru. Government Issue Anarchy is Dead Legless Bull
6. 1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. The Flaming Lips White X-mas It's a Cool, Cool Christmas
7. 2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. Explosions in the Sky Memorial The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

(Historical facts about May 29 are from Wikipedia.)

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