Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
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. | |
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Born on May 29 |
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| 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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