On This Day... (From Your Local Guardian)

On This Day...

5:20am Thursday 29th May 2008 in

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29th May

1871 - Britain's first official bank holiday, Whit Monday, takes place.

1929 - Experimental traffic lights are installed in London's Oxford Street.

1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing become the first people to reach the summit of Everest.

1997 - Bob Dylan is admitted to hospital following a heart attack.

2002 - Newspapers reveal Home Secretary David Blunkett has pledged to make life mean life'. He says he will fight to retain the legal right to keep some killers behind bars until they die.

2002 - The operation to clean up the site of the Twin Towers enters its final chapter. The last remnant of the World Trade Center, a 30ft steel girder that once helped support the South Tower, is symbolically cut down. The operation lasts 38 weeks and takes up more than three million man hours.