Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 29
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On May 29:
- 1453 - Constantinople fell to an Ottoman army, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1660 - Charles II regained the throne of England in the English Restoration.
- 1848 - Wisconsin was admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- 1919 - During a solar eclipse, Arthur Eddington confirmed part of the theory of relativity.
- 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.