Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 29

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 * 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire near Legnano in present-day Italy.
 * 1453 – With the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
 * 1792 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
 * 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
 * 1900 – N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.
 * 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
 * 1918 – World War I: Armenian forces defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Sardarabad, halting the Turkish advance and preventing further destruction of the Armenian nation.
 * 1935 – A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
 * 1942 – Bing Crosby recorded his version of the song "White Christmas", which went on to become the best-selling single worldwide, with more than 50 million copies sold.
 * 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
 * 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
 * 1999 – President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.


 * Born/died: | Patrick Henry |b|1736| Louise-Adéone Drölling |b|1797| Winfield Scott |d|1866| Rudolf Tobias |b|1873|  Gabriel Auguste Daubrée |d|1896| Erich Wolfgang Korngold |b|1897|  John F. Kennedy |b|1917|Sumitro Djojohadikusumo|b|1917| John Barrymore |d|1942| La Toya Jackson |b|1956| Fandi Ahmad|b|1962| Margaret Barr |d|1991