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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