29 May History
- 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.
29 May Birthdays
- 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.