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What events happened on 29 May in history? We round up the events, births and deaths\u2026 <\/p>

By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 29 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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29 May 1660:\u00a0Charles II comes for his crown<\/h3>\n

The Merry Monarch\u2019s arrival marks the end of the republic<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

Charles II<\/a> is remembered for his lavish parties and debauchery, but the celebration he surely enjoyed most was his 30th birthday. That was the day on which he entered London to claim his crown. His arrival was marked with pomp and splendour. His procession through the capital lasted seven hours, greeted by crowds so large and dense that his men were forced to brandish their swords to make way for the new king.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising that the people were excited by his return. Since Charles I<\/a>\u2019s execution in 1649, the country had mostly been a republican Commonwealth led by Oliver Cromwell<\/a>. That leader\u2019s brand of staunch Protestantism had stamped out the indulgence and excess that had formerly been associated with the ruling classes. The return of the king prom- ised the return of frivolity and fun.<\/p>\n

The day also highlighted sobering parallels between the triumphant Charles II and his father. On his journey to the scaffold more than a decade earlier, Charles I had passed beneath the grand Rubens ceiling at Banqueting House \u2013 ironically, an allegorical testament to the glory of monarchy. In 1660, his namesake son passed beneath that same ceiling en route to ascend the throne and restore Britain\u2019s monarchy.<\/p>\n

His reign became known as a golden age, but one of his first acts as king was to seek revenge on the regicides \u2013 those responsible for his father\u2019s death. The body of Cromwell was exhumed and decapitated, and every surviving man who signed Charles I\u2019s death warrant<\/a> was executed, imprisoned or exiled. | Written by Helen Carr<\/strong><\/p>\n

29 May 1829<\/h3>\n

Sir Humphry Davy, Cornish chemist and inventor of the Davy safety lamp for miners, dies, aged 50, in Switzerland. He is buried in the Plainpalais cemetery in Geneva.<\/p>\n

29 May 1862<\/h3>\n

English historian and chess player Henry Thomas Buckle died of typhoid in Damascus. As a result only two of the planned 14 volumes of his monumental History of Civilisation in England were ever completed.<\/p>\n

29 May 1911<\/h3>\n

English librettist Sir William Schwenck Gilbert suffered a heart attack and drowned while trying to rescue a girl from a lake in the grounds of Grim\u2019s Dyke, his Harrow home.<\/p>\n

29 May 1917<\/h3>\n

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, is born in Brookline, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

29 May 1943:\u00a0Rosie the Riveter hits the headlines<\/h3>\n

The iconic image debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of 1943, a jaunty new song seized the imagination of the American people. From the traffic cops in the streets of Chicago to the shoeshine boys at New York\u2019s Grand Central station, everybody was whistling it. And thousands of women working in factories across the United States knew every word of every line. After all, they were in it.<\/p>\n

The song was \u2018Rosie the Riveter\u2019, by the Four Vagabonds. It tells the story of a girl called Rosie, working on the assembly line to build planes for the US Air Force. Her boyfriend, Charlie, is away with the Marines. But she is determined to do her bit. Wiping the grease from her sweating brow, she\u2019s \u201cmaking history, working for victory\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rosie the Riveter\u2019 was the sensation of the season. Soon it was surging up the sales charts, and to mark the moment The Saturday Evening Post<\/em> asked the nation\u2019s most popular artist, Norman Rockwell, to design a special Rosie the Riveter cover. (Not to be mistaken for the 1942 \u2018We Can Do It\u2019 poster, also featuring a female riveter.)<\/p>\n

Rockwell based his Rosie on a real person: a 19-year-old telephone operator, Mary Doyle. For inspiration, Rockwell turned to Michelangelo\u2019s painting of the prophet Isaiah, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In place of the prophet, his picture shows Rosie munching a sandwich, her arms bulging with muscles. Her blue work shirt is covered with badges: an army production award, a V for Victory badge, even a Red Cross blood donor\u2019s badge. Her foot rests scornfully on a copy of Mein Kampf. Behind her flies the American flag.<\/p>\n

Rockwell\u2019s cover became a symbol of a great national crusade, uniting millions of men and women against the tyrants of Germany and Japan. The only person who didn\u2019t like it was Mary Doyle, who was rather slimmer than Rockwell\u2019s Rosie. | Written by Dominic Sandbrook<\/strong><\/p>\n

29 May 1968<\/h3>\n

United Nations Security Council Resolution 253 imposes mandatory economic sanctions against white minority-ruled Rhodesia.<\/p>\n

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