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Thursday, May 29. 2003, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The World Bank announces a US$1.2 billion package to fight the global food crisis including $200 million in grants for those most at risk in Third World countries. //afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwyZX9Ed95L7WVDGnxFGgbdpCsuw (AFP via Google News)

Sidoarjo mud flow - World's biggest mud volcano was created by the blowout of a natural gas well being drilled in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia. This has resulted in displacement of more than 11,000 persons from eight villages as well as damage to road and power infrastructures. Several (Twenty-five) factories were also abandoned.

The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.

Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.

24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi. The next day's legislative election sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.

President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.

Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.

Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.

The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

The first Life Ball takes place in Vienna, Austria. In 2011, the event is named the largest public-charity on HIV and AIDS in Europe.

Heysel Disaster: 38 spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.

Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.

A bloodless coup installs France Albert Rene as President of the Seychelles.

The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two. Bill Walton is selected as the MVP of the series.

The first Apple II series computers go on sale.

Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

Football: Manchester United wins the European Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so.

A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.

Negotiations between the OAS and the FLA lead to a real armistice in Algeria.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

"St. Roch", the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Norman Rockwell's illustration of "Rosie the Riveter" first appears on the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post".

Weather Bureau transferred to the Department of Commerce.

WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender.

WWII: Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time.

WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation ends ndash British and Dutch forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France to England.

The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.

The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.

Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.

May 31 ndash The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.

The British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.

British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.

The Great LouthFlood kills 23.

Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.

The ocean liner RMS "Empress of Ireland" sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,012 lives are lost.

The ocean linerRMS ''Empress of Ireland'' sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,012 lives are lost.

The ballet "The Rite of Spring", with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Chs-Élysées in Paris its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.//www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21 Radio Lab, Show 202: Musical Language, New York: WNYC (21 April 2006). Host/Producer: Jad Abumrad, Co-Host: Robert Krulwich, Producer: Ellen Horne, Production Executives: Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor.

Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.

N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as "Fort-Lamy" by French commander Émile Gentil.

Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise "Coca-Cola" (ad in the "Atlanta Journal").

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, thus ending public hanging.

American Civil War: U. S. President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.

Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the last of the 13 original states to do so.

American Revolutionary War: Loyalist forces under Col. Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering American soldiers in the Waxhaw Massacre.

The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.

Pope Benedict XIII, born Pierro Orsini, succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.

Cary's Rebellion: Governor Edward Hyde's forces reach Thomas Cary's plantation and find it deserted. Cary's troops fortify a Colonel Daniels' plantation a few miles away. Hyde's forces march to Colonel Daniels' plantation but do not attack.

The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginiacolonists and the local Indians.

King Charles II of England arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration.ref name=CBH/

First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

Peter Stuyvesant is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.

The New Model Army marches to London.

The Rhode Island General Assembly drafts a constitution that separates church and state, and permits public referendums and initiatives on legislation.

Thirty Years' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution. He is replaced by the staunch catholic Francis of Wartenberg.

Thirty Years\\\\\\' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution. He is replaced by the staunch catholic Francis of Wartenberg.

Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.

Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them.

John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.

KingPhilip VI of France is crowned, founding the Valois Dynasty after the death of KingCharles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.

Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English.

Battle of Legnano: Frederick Barbarossa is defeated by the Lombard League, leading to the "pactum Anagninum" (the Agreement of Anagni).

Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.

Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of the Commune of Rome is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.

Henry II prohibits English students from attending the University of Paris many settle at the University of Oxford.

Oath of Pontida marks the foundation of the Lombard League

Absalon fortifies Copenhagen.

Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.

Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed "Daijo Daijin", chief minister of the government of Japan./onlyinclude

William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre.

William Marshal, described as the greatest knight that ever lived, is knighted in England.

Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.

Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon.

Pope Paul I succeeds Pope Stephen II as the 93rd pope.

Battle of Ctesiphon: Julian reaches the vicinity of the strongly fortified capital Ctesiphon. King Shapur II in charge of a large Persian army adopts a scorched earth policy, leaving the Romans desperately short of supplies.