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Today in History - May 29
1851 - Sojourner Truth gives her "Ain't I a Woman" speech (later revealed that Truth most likely did not speak in the vernacular recorded by white reporters present).
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born.
1953 - Tenzing Norgay reaches the summit of Mt. Everest known in Tebet as Chomolungma.