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Today in History
May 29

1453   Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660   Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth.
1721   South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England.
1790   Rhode Island becomes last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1848   Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state.
1849   A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1862   Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi.
1911   The first running of the Indianapolis 500.
1913   The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater.
1916   U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.
1922   Ecuador becomes independent.
1922   The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws.
1942   The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union.
1951   C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single engine plane.
1953   Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1974   President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1990   Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia.

Born on May 29
1630   Charles II, king of England (1660-1685).
1736   Patrick Henry, American revolutionary and governor of Virginia.
1874   G.K. Chesterton, English writer.
1880   Oswald Spengler, German philosopher of history and author of The Decline of the West.
1894   Bea Lillie, comic actress.
1894   Josef von Sternberg, film director (Blue Angel).
1903   Bob Hope, comedian and actor.
1906   T.H. White, British writer (The Sword in the Stone).
1917   John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963).
1955   John Hinckley Jr., attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan.

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