| 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 the 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 Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time. |
| 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
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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. |
