May 29 - Events

Events

• 363 – Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of theSassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
• 1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buchand Rainald of Dassel
• 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
• 1414 – Council of Constance.
• 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. Although the date of May 29, 1453 is that of the Julian Calendar, the event is commemorated in Istanbul on this day of the present Gregorian calendar.
• 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday – see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
• 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
• 1727 – Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarletonmassacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
• 1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
• 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
• 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
• 1864 – Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
• 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
• 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
• 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
• 1900 – N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
• 1903 – May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
• 1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
• 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
• 1919 – Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principeand by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
• 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje founded
• 1924 – AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
• 1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.

• 1939 – Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
• 1940 – The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
• 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-sellingChristmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
• 1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
• 1948 – Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
• 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
• 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• 1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
• 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
• 1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
• 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans.
• 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• 1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1989 – Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
• 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
• 1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
• 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• 2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• 2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.