Event:
Scientists describe the 160-million year-old fossile of Aurornis xui as the most basal species of Avialae, possibly shifting the evolutionary position of the Archaeopteryx as the oldest known bird
More Notable Events on May 29:
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1953 Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
