Birthdays
David Bell Birney
Turns 35 on this date
Joseph Lane
Turns 15 on this date
Solomon Meredith
Turns 50 on this date
Thomas Franses Pendel
Turns 36 on this date
Trusten Polk
Turns 49 on this date
Reuben Lindsay Walker
Turns 33 on this date
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Turns 36 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Apaches launch a full scale attack on settlements along the Mimbres River in southern New Mexico | 05/29/1860 |
| US/the World | Garibaldi and his volunteers engage in days of heavy street fighting in Sicily's capital city of Palermo |
05/27/1860 to 05/29/1860 |
| Slavery/Abolition | In Buffalo, NY, Methodist Annual Conference declines to make slave holding a crime of the church | 05/29/1860 |
| Crime/Disasters | On Lake Superior, a passenger steamer runs aground during fog and is lost | 05/29/1860 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “"The Awful Horrors of the Middle-Passage,"” May 29, 1860 | 05/29/1860 |
| Newspaper | Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Astonishing Depravity!,” May 29, 1860 | 05/29/1860 |