Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 29

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  Charles II of England
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  Arthur Eddington
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  Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
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  Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire
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  Place de la Nation, N'Djamena
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  Bing Crosby
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  RMS Empress of Ireland
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  Jenny Lind
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  Messerschmitt Bf 109
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Blurb	Reason
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers;	refimprove
363 – Roman emperor Julian defeated Sassanid Emperor Shapur II outside the walls of Ctesiphon, but was unable to take the city.	refimprove
1167 – A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army.	refimprove
1328 – [[Philip VI of France|Template:Nowrap of France]] was crowned at Notre-Dame de Reims, beginning the Valois Dynasty.	refimprove section
1660 – The monarchy in England was restored under King [[Charles II of England|Template:Nowrap]].	unreferenced section
1780 – American Revolutionary War: A mainly Loyalist force rejected the Continental Army troops' surrender at the Battle of Waxhaws and continued killing the Patriot soldiers, including men who were not resisting.	refimprove section
1848 – Wisconsin became the 30th U.S. state admitted to the Union.	refimprove section
1867 – By the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, signed by Franz Joseph I of Austria and a Hungarian delegation led by Ferenc Deák, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established.	lots of CN tags in one section ("Ethnic minorities")
1886 – Wilhelm Steinitz defeated Johannes Zukertort to become the first official world chess champion.	Article say 29 March
1914 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the collier Template:SS, killing 1,012 on board.	refimprove section
1919 – Observations made by English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.	Experiment: refimprove; Eddington: refimprove section
1935 – The [[Messerschmitt Bf 109|Messerschmitt Template:Nowrap]], the most-produced fighter aircraft in history, made its first flight.	Undercited
1954 – The first annual Bilderberg meeting of leaders from European countries and the United States opened in Oosterbeek, Netherlands.	Date not supported by source cited
1964 – Having deposed them in a January coup, South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Lê Văn Kim convicted of "lax morality".	Tran: refimprove section
1982 – Falklands War: Although they had successfully defended their position, Argentine troops surrendered in the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower, ending the Battle of Goose Green.	inappropriate tone
1985 – A wall at Brussels' Heysel Stadium collapsed under the pressure of football fans escaping a riot before the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, killing 39 people and injuring over 600 others.	refimprove section
David Beaton |d|1546	referencing issues
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier |b|1627|	Too much uncited
Joyce Yakubowich |b|1953	unreferenced section
Ana Beatriz Barros |b|1982	unreferenced section (Filmography)

Eligible

• 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|Template:Nowrap 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| R. F. Kuang |b|1996|

Notes

• Arthur Sullivan appears on May 13, so Gilbert should not appear in the same year
• Roger Bannister appears on May 6, so Leather should not appear in the same year

May 29: Feast day of Saint Paul VI (Catholicism) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols entered and began looting Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty of China, after a 13-month siege.
• 1416 – A squadron of the Venetian navy captured many Ottoman ships at the Battle of Gallipoli, confirming Venetian naval superiority in the Aegean Sea for the next few decades.
• 1913 – During the premiere of the ballet Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience (report pictured).
• 1999 – Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra or live accompaniment.
• 2011 – Residents of Portland, Oregon, held a rally called Hands Across Hawthorne in response to an attack against a gay couple holding hands while crossing the Hawthorne Bridge.