By The Associated Press
                  - Today is Saturday, May 29, the 149th day of 1999. There are 216 days
                    left in the year.

                  - On May 29, 1953 Mount Everest was conquered by Edmund Hillary of New
                    Zealand and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay of Nepal.
                  - In 1765 Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's
                    House of Burgesses, saying, "If this be treason, make the most of
                    it!"
                  - In 1790 Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the
                    Constitution.
                  - In 1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
                  - In 1917 the 35th president of the U.S., John F. Kennedy, was born in
                    Brookline, Mass.
                  - In 1932 World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand
                    cash bonuses they weren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
                  - In 1942 the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" starring James Cagney
                    premiered at a war-bonds benefit in New York.
                  - In 1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott
                    Trotter Orchestra recorded Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in Los
                    Angeles for Decca Records.
                  - Ten years ago, bowing to public demand, the Supreme Soviet allowed
                    Boris N. Yeltsin to take a seat in the standing legislature.
                  - Five years ago Khallid Abdul Muhammad, a former spokesman for the
                    Nation of Islam, was shot and wounded after delivering a speech at
                    the University of California, Riverside; a defrocked Nation of Islam
                    minister, James Edward Bess, was charged. Former East German leader
                    Erich Honecker died in Chile at age 81.
                  - One year ago Republican elder statesman Barry Goldwater died in
                    Paradise Valley, Ariz., at age 89.

                  *Happy Birthday*
                  - Comedian Bob Hope is 96.
                  - Former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent is 61.
                  - Race car driver Al Unser Sr. is 60.
                  - Actor Kevin Conway is 57.
                  - Actor Helmut Berger is 55.
                  - Rock singer Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is 54.
                  - Actor Anthony Geary is 52.
                  - Singer Rebbie Jackson is 49.
                  - Movie composer Danny Elfman is 46.
                  - Singer LaToya Jackson is 43.
                  - Actress Annette Bening is 41.
                  - Actor Rupert Everett is 40.
                  - Rock musician Mel Gaynor is 40.
                  - Actor Adrian Paul (TV series "Highlander") is 40.
                  - Singer Melissa Etheridge is 38.
                  - Actress Lisa Whelchel is 36.
                  - Actress Tracey Bregman is 36.
                  - Singer Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown (Spice Girls) is 24.
                  - Rapper Playa Poncho is 24.