May 29<\/p>\n
1108 \u2013 During the Reconquista, an allied army of Castile and Le\u00f3n under the command of Prince Sancho Alf\u00f3nsez is defeated by an Almoravid force under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf near Ucl\u00e9s, just south of the river Tagus, that retake Cuenca, Huete, Oca\u00f1a, and Ucl\u00e9s<\/p>\n
1453 \u2013 Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53 day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.<\/p>\n
1780 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0British 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.<\/p>\n
1790 \u2013 Rhode Island becomes the last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution<\/p>\n
1848 \u2013 Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.<\/p>\n
1886 \u2013 Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola in The Atlanta Journal.<\/p>\n
1919 \u2013 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 Pr\u00edncipe, and at the town of Sobral in Brazil.<\/p>\n
1931 \u2013 Michele Schirru, a U.S. citizen, is executed by Italian military firing squad for attempting to assassinate Benito Mussolini.<\/p>\n
1932 \u2013 World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., to request early disbursement of cash bonuses promised to be paid\u00a0\u00a0to them in 1945.<\/p>\n
1947 \u2013 United Airlines Flight 521,\u00a0 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<\/p>\n
1953 \u2013 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people confirmed\u00a0to reach the summit of Mount Everest and return.<\/p>\n
1988 \u2013 President Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union, arriving in Moscow for a summit meeting with the Mikhail Gorbachev.<\/p>\n
1999 \u2013 On STS-96, U.S. Navy Captain Kent V. Rominger and a crew of 6 aboard Shuttle Discovery<\/em> makes the first docking of a shuttle with the International Space Station.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 In the case of PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin,<\/em> the Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. by President Bush<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 29 1108 \u2013 During the Reconquista, an allied army of Castile and Le\u00f3n under the command of Prince Sancho Alf\u00f3nsez is defeated by an Almoravid force under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf near Ucl\u00e9s, just south of the river Tagus, that retake Cuenca, Huete, Oca\u00f1a, and Ucl\u00e9s 1453 \u2013 Ottoman armies under Sultan … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55318"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68305,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55318\/revisions\/68305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}