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Events on May 29

• 1453 The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople under Mehmed II, after a siege lasting just under two months, sealed the downfall of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1660 In England, the monarchy is restored when King Charles II enters London on his 30th birthday.
• 1919 An expedition led by Arthur Eddington measures the deflection of starlight by gravity during a solar eclipse—the first experimental proof of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
• 1934 With the Barmen Declaration, the Confessing Church within the Evangelical Church in Germany is founded at the first Barmen Synod in Wuppertal, from May 29 to 31, to resist the Gleichschaltung and influence exerted on the Church by National Socialism.
• 1942 At the Decca Studios in New York City, Bing Crosby and other performers record Irving Berlin’s composition White Christmas. The song will become the world’s most commercially successful Christmas single.
• 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay succeed in making the first ascent of Mount Everest.
• 1958 The party organ Neues Deutschland reports on the law passed by the People’s Chamber to improve living conditions. Among other things, this brings food rationing in the GDR to an end.
• 1985 Before the European Cup Winners’ Cup final at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels between Juventus Turin and FC Liverpool, hooligan disturbances lead to mass panic. 39 people die in the Heysel disaster, and over 200 are injured.
• 1988 With the Fulda–Würzburg section of the Hannover–Würzburg high-speed railway, the first newly built high-speed railway line for rail transport in Germany enters service.
• 1993 Five Turkish women and girls are killed in Solingen in a xenophobic arson attack on a residential building.
• 2010 At the Eurovision Song Contest, Lena Meyer-Landrut wins for Germany with “Satellite”; Germany last achieved this in 1982, with Nicole and “A Little Peace”.
• 2016 Four people die in severe storms in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Braunsbach is hit hardest, where a mudslide sweeps through the town.

Born on May 29

• 1880 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher of history and cultural historian
• 1897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer
• 1903 Bob Hope, American comedian
• 1920 Fredy Knie senior, Swiss circus director
• 1930 Burkhard Hirsch, German politician
• 1930 Ekkehard Schall, German actor, Brecht performer
• 1961 Melissa Etheridge, American rock musician and guitarist
• 1962 Semino Rossi, Argentine-Austrian pop singer
• 1970 Roberto Di Matteo, Italian football player and coach
• 1971 Bernd Mayländer, German racing driver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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