May 29

Events

• 1453 - Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday - see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
• 1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the U. S. Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
• 1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
• 1903 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 1919 - Republic of Prekmurje founded
• 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest,
• 1954 - First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
• 1964 - The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel which leads to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
• 1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.
• 2004 - New Orleans Protocol is signed; organized by David Duke
• 2007 - The French section of Metapedia is launched [1]]

Births

• 1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
• 1736 - Patrick Henry, American patriot, statesman, and orator (d. 1799)
• 1874 - G. K. Chesterton, English journalist and author (d. 1936)
• 1880 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
• 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
• 1955 - John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin

Deaths

• 1972 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and OSS spy (b. 1902)
• 1994 - Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
• 1998 - Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)