May 29

Sunday 29, 2005:

France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution, throwing the idea of a European Union into question and leaving the continent in a state of anxiety and uncertainty (see French referendum on the European Constitution)

Friday 29, 1914:

Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.

Saturday 29, 1790:

Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.

Friday 29, 1733:

Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.

Saturday 29, 1677:

Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.

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