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Charles II of England
Arthur Eddington
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire
Place de la Nation, N'Djamena
Bing Crosby
RMS Empress of Ireland
Jenny Lind
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Igor Stravinsky
Headline in the New York Times
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers; | refimprove |
| 363 – Roman emperor Julian defeated Sassanid Emperor Shapur II outside the walls of Ctesiphon, but was unable to take the city. | refimprove |
| 526 – A catastrophic earthquake struck Antioch, killing thousands of people, including Patriarch Euphrasius. | Not specifically May 29th |
| 1167 – A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army. | refimprove |
| 1328 – Philip VI of France was crowned at Notre-Dame de Reims, beginning the Valois Dynasty. | refimprove section |
| 1660 – The monarchy in England was restored under King Charles II. | unreferenced section |
| 1780 – American Revolutionary War: A mainly Loyalist force rejected the Continental Army troops' surrender at the Battle of Waxhaws and continued killing the Patriot soldiers, including men who were not resisting. | refimprove section |
| 1848 – Wisconsin became the 30th U.S. state admitted to the Union. | refimprove section |
| 1867 – By the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, signed by Franz Joseph I of Austria and a Hungarian delegation led by Ferenc Deák, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established. | lots of CN tags in one section ("Ethnic minorities") |
| 1886 – Wilhelm Steinitz defeated Johannes Zukertort to become the first official world chess champion. | Article say 29 March |
| 1914 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the collier SS Storstad, killing 1,012 on board. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – Observations made by English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. | Experiment: refimprove; Eddington: refimprove section |
| 1935 – The Messerschmitt Bf 109, the most-produced fighter aircraft in history, made its first flight. | Undercited |
| 1954 – The first annual Bilderberg meeting of leaders from European countries and the United States opened in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. | Date not supported by source cited |
| 1964 – Having deposed them in a January coup, South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Lê Văn Kim convicted of "lax morality". | Tran: refimprove section |
| 1982 – Falklands War: Although they had successfully defended their position, Argentine troops surrendered in the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower, ending the Battle of Goose Green. | inappropriate tone |
| 1985 – A wall at Brussels' Heysel Stadium collapsed under the pressure of football fans escaping a riot before the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, killing 39 people and injuring over 600 others. | refimprove section |
| David Beaton |d|1546 | referencing issues |
| Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier |b|1627| | Too much uncited |
| Joyce Yakubowich |b|1953 | unreferenced section |
| Ana Beatriz Barros |b|1982 | unreferenced section (Filmography) |
| G. K. Chesterton|b|1874| | unsourced section |
Eligible
- 1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols entered and began looting Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty of China, after a 13-month siege.
- 1416 – A squadron of the Venetian navy captured many Ottoman ships at the Battle of Gallipoli, confirming Venetian naval superiority in the Aegean Sea for the next few decades.
- 1453 – With the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
- 1792 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
- 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
- 1900 – N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.
- 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
- 1913 – During the premiere of the ballet Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience (report pictured).
- 1918 – World War I: Armenian forces defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Sardarabad, halting the Turkish advance and preventing further destruction of the Armenian nation.
- 1935 – A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
- 1942 – Bing Crosby recorded his version of the song "White Christmas", which went on to become the best-selling single worldwide, with more than 50 million copies sold.
- 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
- 1999 – Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra or live accompaniment.
- 2011 – Residents of Portland, Oregon, held a rally called Hands Across Hawthorne in response to an attack against a gay couple holding hands while crossing the Hawthorne Bridge.
- 2020 – An oil spill in Norilsk released 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers.
- Born/died: | Patrick Henry |b|1736| Benedetto Pistrucci |b|1783| Louise-Adéone Drölling |b|1797| Winfield Scott |d|1866| Rudolf Tobias |b|1873| Gabriel Auguste Daubrée |d|1896| Erich Wolfgang Korngold |b|1897| Hubert Opperman |b|1904| John F. Kennedy |b|1917| Sumitro Djojohadikusumo|b|1917| Jules Loh|b|1931| John Barrymore |d|1942| Uroš Drenović |d|1944| La Toya Jackson |b|1956| Fandi Ahmad|b|1962| Noel Gallagher |b|1967| R. F. Kuang |b|1996|
Notes
- Arthur Sullivan appears on May 13, so Gilbert should not appear in the same year
- Roger Bannister appears on May 6, so Leather should not appear in the same year
May 29: Feast day of Saint Paul VI (Catholicism); Oak Apple Day (parts of England)
Sojourner Truth
- 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Legnano in present-day Italy.
- 1851 – Sojourner Truth (pictured) delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron.
- 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1999 – President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.
- Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe (b. 1926)
- Abdoulaye Wade (b. 1926)
- Margaret Barr (d. 1991)
- Gukesh Dommaraju (b. 2006)