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Sporting Events on May 29

1897 : 31st Belmont: J Scherrer aboard Scottish Cheiftain wins in 2:23¬
1900 : 25th Preakness: H Spencer aboard Hindus wins in 1:48.4
1916 : NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
1946 : KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1958 : Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
1968 : Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London
1977 : A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time
1980 : 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1985 : Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
1986 : 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1987 : Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
1988 : Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season
1991 : Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I
1992 : NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games
1993 : he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits & 3 walks, he damages his arm
1994 : Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
1994 : Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1997 : 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
2004 : Habibul Bashar scores 113 and leads Bangladesh in the first test against West Indies. Bangladesh scores 278/7 at end of day one
2004 : Michael Clarke scores his maiden international century and steers Australia to an eight-wicket win against Zimbabwe. Australia wraps up the three one-day series 3-0
2004 : Former Australian captain Greg Chappell signs 30-day coaching contract with Pakistan's national cricket team and cricket academy.

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