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2019

The World Health Organization no longer classifies transgender identity as a mental illness.

ABC cancels the sitcom “Roseanne” after its star, Roseanne Barr, posted a racist tweet.

Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida.

A heat wave hits the Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, killing 1,800 people in one week.

The space shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station for the first time.

Space Shuttle STS-77 Endeavour 11 launches with Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau on board.

Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian Republic.

Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for the NBA Rookie of the Year award.

Charles de Gaulle forms the French government. He will be sworn in on June 1.

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to climb Mount Everest.

Bing Crosby, Ken Darby, and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record the song “White Christmas,” the best-selling Christmas song in history.

The Empress of Ireland collides with a Norwegian ship in the St. Lawrence River, killing 1,024 people; 464 others are rescued.

The inventor of Coca-Cola places the first advertisement promoting his new beverage in The Atlanta Journal.

Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, falls to the Turks under Mehmed II, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.

It happened on… May 29