May 29: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1453 - Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatihcaptures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
2. 1790 - Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' coloniesto ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
3. 1848 - Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
4. 1886 - The Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in The Atlanta Journal.
5. 1919 - Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
6. 1950 - The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
7. 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
8. 1973 - Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
9. 1999 - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
10. 2004 - The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
11. Famous Birthdays: John F. Kennedy (American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States), John Harsanyi (Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate), Peter Higgs (English-Scottish physicist), Paul R. Ehrlich (American biologist and author), Joyce Tenneson (American photographer)

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