May 29

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1176 &ndash; Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1328 &ndash; Philip VI of France is crowned King.
* 1453 &ndash; Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53–day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
* 1613 &ndash; Heavy flooding in Thuringia kills 2,261 people.
* 1660 &ndash; Charles II becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as the monarchy is restored.
* 1677 &ndash; The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Native Americans.
* 1717 &ndash; The Spanish colonists create the Viceroyalty of New Granada, consisting of present–day Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, as well as areas that are now part of Peru and Guyana.
* 1727 &ndash; Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1780 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of the Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113.
* 1790 &ndash; Rhode Island becomes the 13th State of the US.
* 1798 &ndash; United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
* 1825 &ndash; King Charles X of France crowns himself in Reims.
* 1848 &ndash; Wisconsin becomes the 30th State of the US.
* 1852 &ndash; Operatic singer Jenny Lind leaves New York City after a two–year tour of the United States.
* 1867 &ndash; The Austro-Hungarian compromise establishes the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria becomes King of Hungary on June 8.
* 1886 &ndash; Chemist John Pemberton advertises Coca-Cola in the *Atlanta Journal*.
* 1900 &ndash; N'Djamena is founded as *Fort Lamy* by French commander Emile Gentil.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1913 &ndash; Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its first performance in Paris, with a riot later occurring.
* 1914 &ndash; The Ocean liner RMS *Empress of Ireland* sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, killing 1,024 people.
* 1917 &ndash; John F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
* 1918 &ndash; The current Flag of Finland is introduced.
* 1918 &ndash; Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
* 1919 &ndash; Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois.
* 1931 &ndash; Michele Schirru, a US citizen, is executed by an Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
* 1935 &ndash; The Messerschmidt Bf 109 fighter aircraft has its first flight.
* 1939 &ndash; Albanian Fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
* 1942 &ndash; Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's song White Christmas, which later becomes the best–selling Christmas single ever.
* 1948 &ndash; Creation of the UN peacekeeping force, the UN Truce Supervision Organization.
* 1953 &ndash; Jack Catain Jr., an American businessman, marries Marlene Noble, an apparel sales associate, in Cook County, Illinois.
* 1953 &ndash; Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary become the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.
* 1954 &ndash; The first of the yearly Bilderberg conferences takes place.
* 1964 &ndash; The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
* 1966 &ndash; The Azteca Stadium opens in Mexico City and has a capacity of 105,000. It goes on to host the final of the FIFA World Cup on two occasions, in 1970 and 1986.
* 1973 &ndash; Tom Bradley is elected the first African American Mayor of Los Angeles.
* 1974 &ndash; Yitzhak Rabin replaces Golda Meir as Prime Minister of Israel.
* 1982 &ndash; Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
* 1982 &ndash; Pope John Paul II visits Canterbury cathedral.
* 1985 &ndash; One of Europe's worst ever stadium disasters occurs after a riot at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, in which 39 people are killed. As a result, English football teams are banned from European Competition – the ban is removed a few years later.
* 1985 &ndash; Amputee Steve Fonyo completes a cross–Canada marathon in Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
* 1986 &ndash; The current 12–star Flag of the European Union is first raised in Brussels.
* 1988 &ndash; US President Ronald Reagan begins his first official visit to the Soviet Union, to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev.
* 1990 &ndash; The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
* 1994 &ndash; East Germany's former leader Erich Honecker dies in Santiago, Chile, at the age of 81.
* 1999 &ndash; Olusegun Obasanjo becomes President of Nigeria.
* 1999 &ndash; The Space Shuttle *Discovery* completes its first docking with the International Space Station.

### From 2001 
* 2004 &ndash; The US National World War II Memorial is unveiled in Washington, DC.
* 2005 &ndash; In a referendum, 54.8% of voters in France reject the proposed new European Constitution. Voters in the Netherlands also reject the Constitution by a majority a few days later.
* 2008 &ndash; 30 people are injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Selfoss, Iceland.
* 2010 &ndash; Tropical storm Agatha kills 180 people in Guatemala. During the storm, a large sinkhole opens up in the middle of Guatemala City.
* 2010 &ndash; Lena Meyer-Landrut of Germany wins the 55th Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway, with the song "Satellite".
* 2012 &ndash; A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
* 2012 &ndash; Mitt Romney secures the Republican Party nomination for the US presidential election, in which he is defeated by incumbent Barack Obama on November 6.
* 2013 &ndash; The first same-sex marriage in France takes place.
* 2015 &ndash; Muhammadu Buhari takes office as President of Nigeria.
* 2015 &ndash; Sepp Blatter is controversially re–elected President of FIFA in a week of scandal at football's world governing body. He announces his resignation four days later.
* 2018 &ndash; 2018 Liège attack: A gunman kills 3 people (including two female police officers) in the Belgian city of Liège before being killed by police.
* 2018 &ndash; Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is initially reported to have been shot dead, but appears alive at a press conference the following day; the Ukrainian secret services say they had faked his murder to prevent an attempt on his life.
* 2018 &ndash; US TV network ABC cancels the recently returned show Roseanne after a row erupts over its main star Roseanne Barr's Twitter comments.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1265 &ndash; Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
* 1439 &ndash; Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
* 1594 &ndash; Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
* 1627 &ndash; Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1693)
* 1630 &ndash; Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1685)
* 1675 &ndash; Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
* 1716 &ndash; Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French botanist (d. 1800)
* 1736 &ndash; Patrick Henry, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
* 1773 &ndash; Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
* 1780 &ndash; Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
* 1794 &ndash; Johann Heinrich von Madler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
* 1823 &ndash; John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
* 1830 &ndash; Louise Michel, French writer and anarchist (d. 1905)
* 1860 &ndash; Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
* 1868 &ndash; Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty (d. 1944)
* 1871 &ndash; Clark Greenwood Voorhees, American painter (d. 1933)
* 1873 &ndash; Rudolf Tobias, Estonian composer (d. 1918)
* 1874 &ndash; G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
* 1880 &ndash; Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
* 1892 &ndash; Alfonsina Storni, Swiss–Argentine poet (d. 1938)
* 1893 &ndash; Max Brand, American writer (d. 1944)
* 1894 &ndash; Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
* 1894 &ndash; Josef von Sternberg, Austrian–American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1969)
* 1897 &ndash; Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
* 1899 &ndash; Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1987)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; Bob Hope, British–born American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
* 1904 &ndash; Gregg Toland, American cameraman (d. 1948)
* 1905 &ndash; Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director and playwright (d. 1994)
* 1906 &ndash; T. H. White, English writer (d. 1964)
* 1911 &ndash; Armida, Mexican–American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1989)
* 1914 &ndash; Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
* 1914 &ndash; Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain guide, reached the top of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary (d. 1986)
* 1917 &ndash; John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
* 1919 &ndash; Jacques Genest, Canadian physician
* 1920 &ndash; John Harsanyi, Hungarian–born economist (d. 2000)
* 1923 &ndash; Bernard Clavel, French writer (d. 2010)
* 1924 &ndash; Lars Bo, Danish writer and artist (d. 1999)
* 1924 &ndash; Behjat Sadr, Iranian painter (d. 2009)
* 1926 &ndash; Katie Boyle, British actress and television presenter (d. 2018)
* 1926 &ndash; Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
* 1926 &ndash; Abdoulaye Wade, former President of Senegal
* 1928 &ndash; Jacques Taminiaux, Belgian philosopher
* 1929 &ndash; Peter Higgs, British physicist (Higgs boson) and Nobel Prize in Physics winner
* 1929 &ndash; Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
* 1930 &ndash; Jack Catain Jr., American businessman and convicted criminal (d. 1987)
* 1932 &ndash; Richie Guerin, American basketball player
* 1932 &ndash; Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and writer
* 1933 &ndash; Helmuth Rilling, German choral conductor and teacher
* 1934 &ndash; Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch–Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
* 1935 &ndash; André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)
* 1937 &ndash; Jasper Griffin, English classical philologist
* 1937 &ndash; Hibari Misora, Japanese actress (d. 1989)
* 1937 &ndash; Alwin Schockemöhle, German showjumper
* 1938 &ndash; Christopher Bland, British businessman and politician (d. 2017)
* 1939 &ndash; Al Unser, American racing driver
* 1940 &ndash; Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
* 1940 &ndash; Taiho Koki, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2013)
* 1941 &ndash; Doug Scott, English mountaineer
* 1941 &ndash; Bob Simon, American television correspondent (d. 2015)
* 1942 &ndash; Pierre Bourque, Canadian politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
* 1942 &ndash; Kevin Conway, American actor
* 1944 &ndash; Bob Benmosche, American businessman (d. 2015)
* 1944 &ndash; Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1983)
* 1944 &ndash; Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford, English politician
* 1945 &ndash; Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist
* 1945 &ndash; Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
* 1945 &ndash; Catherine Lara, French singer-songwriter and violinist
* 1947 &ndash; Anthony Geary, American actor
* 1947 &ndash; Joey Levine, American singer-songwriter and producer
* 1947 &ndash; Gene Robinson, American bishop
* 1947 &ndash; Constantino Romero, Spanish radio host and actor (d. 2013)
* 1948 &ndash; Nick Mancuso, Italian–Canadian actor
* 1949 &ndash; Robert Axelrod, American actor
* 1949 &ndash; Francis Rossi, English musician (Status Quo)
* 1950 &ndash; Rebbie Jackson, American singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
* 1952 &ndash; Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan–American computer programmer (d. 2014)
* 1953 &ndash; Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor and director (d. 2008)
* 1953 &ndash; Danny Elfman, American singer, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo")
* 1955 &ndash; Carme Forcadell, Catalan politician
* 1955 &ndash; Gordon Rintoul, Director of the National Museums of Scotland
* 1955 &ndash; Mike Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (d. 2015)
* 1955 &ndash; John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
* 1956 &ndash; La Toya Jackson, American singer
* 1956 &ndash; Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, UK Ambassador to the United Nations
* 1956 &ndash; Bjarni Fridriksson, Icelandic judoka
* 1957 &ndash; Ted Levine, American actor
* 1958 &ndash; Karen Maruyama, Japanese–American actress
* 1958 &ndash; Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player
* 1958 &ndash; Wayne Duvall, American actor
* 1958 &ndash; Annette Bening, American actress
* 1959 &ndash; Rupert Everett, English actor
* 1959 &ndash; Steve Hanley, Irish–English bass player and songwriter
* 1961 &ndash; Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist
* 1962 &ndash; Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach and manager
* 1962 &ndash; Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
* 1962 &ndash; Semino Rossi, Argentine–Italian singer
* 1963 &ndash; Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden)
* 1967 &ndash; Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
* 1970 &ndash; Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
* 1971 &ndash; Rob Womack, British paralympic athlete
* 1972 &ndash; Stanislas, French singer-songwriter
* 1972 &ndash; Bill Curley, American basketball player
* 1972 &ndash; Simon Jones, British singer and bass player
* 1975 &ndash; Melanie Brown, English singer (Spice Girls)
* 1975 &ndash; Sarah Millican, English comedienne

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Antonio Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (The Hives)
* 1978 &ndash; Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
* 1978 &ndash; Lorenzo Odone, Italian Adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
* 1978 &ndash; Adam Rickitt, English singer and actor
* 1979 &ndash; Arne Friedrich, German footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
* 1979 &ndash; Fonseca, Colombian singer
* 1981 &ndash; Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
* 1982 &ndash; Joanne Borgella, American singer and model (d. 2014)
* 1982 &ndash; Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
* 1982 &ndash; Bjarte Myrhol, Norwegian handball player
* 1983 &ndash; Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Carmelo Anthony, American NBA basketball player
* 1985 &ndash; Hernanes, Brazilian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler
* 1987 &ndash; Alessandra Torresani, American actress
* 1988 &ndash; Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
* 1988 &ndash; Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
* 1988 &ndash; Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian air force pilot (d. 2015)
* 1989 &ndash; Riley Keough, American model and actress
* 1989 &ndash; Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor, singer and dancer
* 1992 &ndash; Gregg Sulkin, British actor
* 1998 &ndash; Lucia Gil, Spanish singer and actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1950 
* 1259 &ndash; King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
* 1379 &ndash; Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
* 1425 &ndash; Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
* 1453 &ndash; Constantine XI Palaiologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
* 1500 &ndash; Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. 1451)
* 1546 &ndash; David Beaton, Scottish cardinal and politician (b. 1494)
* 1814 &ndash; Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
* 1829 &ndash; Humphrey Davy, British chemist (b. 1778)
* 1866 &ndash; Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
* 1868 &ndash; Michael Obrenovich III of Serbia (b. 1823)
* 1883 &ndash; Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (b. 1810)
* 1892 &ndash; Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i religion (b. 1817)
* 1903 &ndash; Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
* 1910 &ndash; Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1837)
* 1911 &ndash; W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
* 1919 &ndash; Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
* 1931 &ndash; Michele Schirru, US citizen executed by an Italian military firing squad
* 1935 &ndash; Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
* 1939 &ndash; Ursula Ledochowska, Austrian–Polish nun and saint (b. 1865)
* 1942 &ndash; John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
* 1948 &ndash; May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)

### 1951 &ndash; 2010 
* 1951 &ndash; Fanny Brice, American singer and comedienne (b. 1891)
* 1958 &ndash; Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish writer (b. 1881)
* 1972 &ndash; Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1901)
* 1973 &ndash; P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer and composer (b. 1929)
* 1973 &ndash; George Harriman, English rugby player and managing director (b. 1908)
* 1977 &ndash; Ba Maw, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1893)
* 1979 &ndash; Mary Pickford, Canadian–born actress (b. 1892)
* 1982 &ndash; Romy Schneider, Austrian–French actress (b. 1938)
* 1987 &ndash; Charan Singh, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
* 1988 &ndash; Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (b. 1905)
* 1989 &ndash; John Cipollina, American guitarist (b. 1943)
* 1994 &ndash; Erich Honecker, East German political leader (b. 1913)
* 1996 &ndash; Tamara Toumanova, Russian–American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
* 1997 &ndash; Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)
* 1998 &ndash; Barry Goldwater, United States Senator (b. 1909)
* 2004 &ndash; Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
* 2008 &ndash; Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
* 2009 &ndash; Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
* 2010 &ndash; Dennis Hopper, American actor (b. 1936)

### From 2011 
* 2011 &ndash; Sergei Bagapsh, President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
* 2011 &ndash; Ferenc Madl, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
* 2011 &ndash; Bill Clements, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
* 2012 &ndash; Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1912)
* 2012 &ndash; Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
* 2013 &ndash; Mulgrew Miller, American pianist (b. 1955)
* 2013 &ndash; Franca Rame, Italian actress (b. 1929)
* 2014 &ndash; Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian–German actor (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss developmental biologist (b. 1939)
* 2014 &ndash; Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
* 2015 &ndash; Bruno Pesaola, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
* 2015 &ndash; Ed Gilligan, American financial executive, President of American Express (b. 1960)
* 2015 &ndash; Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925)
* 2015 &ndash; Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926)
* 2016 &ndash; Ralph Ketner, American businessman (b. 1920)
* 2016 &ndash; T. Marshall Hahn, American academic administrator (b. 1926)
* 2016 &ndash; Don McNay, American financial writer and columnist (b. 1959)
* 2017 &ndash; Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
* 2017 &ndash; Manuel Noriega, Panamanian military leader (b. 1934)
* 2017 &ndash; Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli general and politician (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; Michael A'Hearn, American astronomer (b. 1940)
* 2018 &ndash; Yoseph Imry, Israeli physicist (b. 1939)

## Observances 
* Democracy Day (Nigeria)
* International UN Peacekeepers Day
* Oak Apple Day (England)
* Statehood Day (Rhode Island and Wisconsin)