It happened on this day, May 29
events:
1453 – Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, led by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, end of the Byzantine Empire, which lasted a thousand years, and the beginning of the end of the Middle Ages on the European continent.
1807 – The overthrow of Ottoman Sultan Selim III and Mustafa, son of Sultan Abdul Hamid I, takes power as Mustafa IV.
1856 – The first founding meeting of the American Republican Party takes place.
1892 – Sheikh Muhammad bin Sabah Al-Sabah assumes power over Kuwait after the death of his brother, Sheikh Abdullah bin Sabah Al-Sabah.
1912 – Bulgaria and Greece enter into an alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – The Norwegian tanker “Storland” collided with the British ship “Empress of Ireland” due to fog, resulting in the drowning of more than 900 passengers.
1918 – German forces occupy the French town of Soissons.
1923 – The United Kingdom suspends the Palestinian constitution on the grounds that the Arabs are not cooperating with it.
1930 – The first issue of the Al-Maghrib newspaper is published by the dean of the Algerian press, Abou Al-Yakzan Ibrahim. It is one of eight newspapers published and suspended by the French colonial authority.
(1945-Bombardment of the Syrian Parliament by the French army killing most of the Sagarnisone and in several neighborhoods of Damascus leaving 600 dead and at least a thousand injured
1948 – Declaration of the first truce in the Palestine War.
1952 – Greece grants women the right to vote. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank approve Japan's membership.
1953 – New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, for the first time in history.
1958 – General Charles de Gaulle takes over as president of the French government.
1974 – A truce agreement is reached in the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel.
1986 – The European Common Market adopts a new blue flag bearing 12 gold stars.
1989 – An Egyptian-American agreement is signed to manufacture parts of the F-16 fighter jet in Egypt.
2004 – An armed attack in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, on a residential complex, killing 22 people and injuring 25, and Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for the attack.
2015 – It was announced that approximately half of the world's population of saiga antelopes, already at risk of extinction, had died due to an unknown animal epidemic.
✴️ A suicide attack in a mosque in the Al-Anoud district of the Saudi city of Dammam leaves 4 dead.
2016 – Real Madrid win the 2016 Champions League title after beating Atletico Madrid on penalties.
2021 – Chelsea defeat fellow Manchester City 1-0 in the Champions League final, winning the title for the second time in their history.
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Births:
1594 – Gottfried Heinrich, German soldier.
1630 – Charles II, King of England.
1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish musician.
1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher.
1881 – Adolfo de la Huerta, president of Mexico.
1899 – Zaki Tulaimat, Egyptian actor.
1903 – Bob Hope, American actor.
1917 – John Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.
1920 – Jón Harsanyi, Hungarian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
1924 – Zahoor Hussein, Iraqi singer.
1926 – Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, thirteenth Emir of the State of Kuwait.
1955 – John Hinckley Jr., an American who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
1957 – Ted Levine, American actor.
1958 – Giuliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director and political activist.
1971 – Iman Ayyad, Palestinian journalist.
1975 – Melanie Brown, English singer and former member of the Spice Girls.
1976 – Claudio Casaba, Brazilian footballer.
1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer.
1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player.
1979 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer.
1981 – Andrey Arshavin, Russian footballer.
1982 – Saleh Al-Sheikh, Kuwaiti footballer.
1983 – Alberto Medina, Mexican footballer.
** Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer.
1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player.
1988 – Moaz Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian pilot.
**Tobin Heath, American footballer.
1989 – Riley Keough, American model and actress.
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Death:
1259 – Christopher I, king of Denmark.
1453 – Constantine XI, emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1500 – Bartholomew Diaz, Portuguese explorer.
1660 – Muhammad Kabrit al-Madani, Hejazi Sufi, writer and poet.
1814 – Empress Joséphine, Empress of France and wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1829 – Humphry Davy, English physicist and chemist.
1892 – Sheikh Abdullah bin Sabah Al-Sabah, fifth ruler of Kuwait.
** Baha'u'llah, founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
1942 – John Barrymore, American actor.
1948 – Ahmed Al-Kashef, Egyptian poet.
1958 – Juan Ramón Jimenez, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956.
1977 – Youssef Abu Al-Khudood, American inventor of Lebanese origin.
1978 – Queen Nazli, wife of King Fouad I.
1994 – Erich Honecker, President of the German Democratic Republic.
1997 – Jeff Buckle, American singer.
2002 – Alia El-Gabbas, Egyptian actress.
2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor.
2011 – Sergei Bagapsh, President of Abkhazia.
2018 – Saad Mohamed Hassan, Egyptian musician.
** Ali Banat, Australian businessman and philanthropist of Palestinian origin.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Day of Internal Security Forces in Syria.
⬅️Democracy Day in Nigeria.
⬅️ International Day of United Nations Peacekeeping Forces.
