May 29

1108 – During the Reconquista, an allied army of Castile and León under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez is defeated by an Almoravid force under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf near Uclés, just south of the river Tagus, that retake Cuenca, Huete, Ocaña, and Uclés

1453 – Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53 day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

1780 –  British forces under the command of Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton continue attacking Continental troops under the command of Colonel Abraham Buford at the Battle of Waxhaws in South Carolina, even after they had already surrendered and laid down their arms, killing 113 troops and critically wounding all but 53.

1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution

1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.

1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola in The Atlanta Journal.

1919 – Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin conduct tests of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity by making coordinated observations of a total solar eclipse on the west African island of Príncipe, and at the town of Sobral in Brazil.

1931 – Michele Schirru, a U.S. citizen, is executed by Italian military firing squad for attempting to assassinate Benito Mussolini.

1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., to request early disbursement of cash bonuses promised to be paid  to them in 1945.

1947 – United Airlines Flight 521,  a Douglas DC-4, crashes while attempting to take off at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43 of the 48 passengers and crew aboard, at the time, the worst commercial aviation disaster in U.S. history

1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest and return.

1988 – President Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union, arriving in Moscow for a summit meeting with the Mikhail Gorbachev.

1999 – On STS-96, U.S. Navy Captain Kent V. Rominger and a crew of 6 aboard Shuttle Discovery makes the first docking of a shuttle with the International Space Station.

2001 – In the case of PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, the Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.

2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. by President Bush

2015 – One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.

2021 – A privately owned Cessna Citation I/SP crashes into Percy Priest Lake in Tennessee shortly after takeoff from Smyrna Airport, killing all 7 people on board, including actor Joe Lara and his wife Gwen Shamblin Lara.