On May 30, 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (Go to article.)
1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
1539 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
1854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1883 [...]

A Chinese woman’s 64-year-old headache has ended after doctors removed a bullet that relatives said lodged in her skull when Japanese soldiers shot her during World War Two, state media reported on Monday.
Jin Guangying, now 77, lost consciousness after a Japanese patrol in Jiangsu province fired on her in 1943 as she went to meet [...]

A paralysed Australian woman, Sonya Smith, underwent a controversial new stem cell treatment in India, and has defied doctors by walking again.
Sonya was paralysed after being crushed by the wheels of her own car. Eighteen months doctors announced that she was a paraplegic, with no feeling below her waist and with no control over her [...]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963
The Administration of John F. Kennedy was marked by a breathless series of major events– the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, the Berlin Wall, riots at the University of Mississippi and other places in the battle for civil rights, and the Cuban showdown.
But from the moment Premier Khrushchev announced the dismantling [...]

On May 29, 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit. (Go to article.)
1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses, saying, “If this be treason, make the most of it!”
1790 Rhode Island became [...]