May 29th 1953, Clemens Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asia’s Himalayas. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the world’s highest peak without his partner. “Teamwork it was that got Tenzing and me o the top of the Everest.

 

1917, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". President John F. Kennedy is born in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts. Kennedy inspires Americans with his charisma basing cold war crisis from Cuba to Berlin before he was assassinated in Dallas.

 

1765, a decade before the American Revolution, Patrick Henry denounces his Britain’s Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses. Responding to a cry of treason against British colonial rule, Henry declares: "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

 

And 1903, thanks for the memory of sentimental verse.

 

comedian Bob Hope who entertained Americans and US troops worldwide for decades, is born in London.

 

Today In History, May 29th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.