Today is Sunday, May 29, the 150th day of 2016. There are 216 days left in the year.
Today’s birthdays: Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent is 78. Motorsports Hall of Famer Al Unser is 77. Actor Kevin Conway is 74. Rock singer Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is 71. Actor Anthony Geary is 69. Movie composer Danny Elfman is 63. Singer LaToya Jackson is 60. Actress Annette Bening is 58. Singer Melissa Etheridge is 55. Rock musician Noel Gallagher is 49. Musician Chan Kinchla (Blues Traveler) is 47. Cartoonist Aaron McGruder (“The Boondocks’’) is 42. Singer Melanie Brown (Spice Girls) is 41. Rapper Playa Poncho is 41. Latin singer Fonseca is 37.
In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.
In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the US Constitution.
In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
In 1912, the ballet ‘‘L’Apres-midi d’un Faune’’ (The Afternoon of a Faun), with music by Claude Debussy, premiered in Paris with Vaslav Nijinsky dancing the title role.
In 1913, the ballet ‘‘Le Sacre du printemps’’ (The Rite of Spring), with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, had its chaotic world premiere in Paris. The D.H. Lawrence novel ‘‘Sons and Lovers’’ was first published by Duckworth Co. of London, albeit in an expurgated version.
In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Mass.
In 1943, Norman Rockwell’s portrait of ‘‘Rosie the Riveter’’ appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. (The model for Rockwell’s Rosie, Mary Doyle Keefe, died in April 2015 at age 92.)
In 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit.
In 1961, a couple in Paynesville, W.Va., became the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President Kennedy.
In 1973, Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
In 1985, 39 people were killed at the European Cup Final in Brussels when rioting broke out and a wall separating British and Italian soccer fans collapsed.
In 1999, Discovery became the first space shuttle to dock with the International Space Station. Olusegun Obasanjo became Nigeria’s first civilian president in 15 years, ending a string of military regimes.
In 2011, a week after Joplin, Mo., was devastated by the deadliest tornado to strike the United States in decades, President Obama visited the city to offer hope to survivors and promises of help.
Last year, the Obama administration formally removed Cuba from the terrorism blacklist.
