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.





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