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Today in History: May 29
1721 South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England.

1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.

1848 Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state.

1849 A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.

1862 Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi.

1911 The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time.

1916 U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.

1974 President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.

2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization


Born on May 29
1903 Bob Hope, comedian and actor.

1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963).

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What do you get when you cross human DNA with a goat?

Arrested and Banned from the petting zoo