Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 29

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  Charles II of England
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  Arthur Eddington
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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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  Igor Stravinsky}}

• 1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols entered and began looting Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty of China, after a 13-month siege.
• 1453 – With the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1913 – During the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (pictured) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1999 – President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.

• Born/died: | Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier |b|1627| Patrick Henry |b|1736| Benedetto Pistrucci |b|1783| Winfield Scott |d|1866| Rudolf Tobias |b|1873| G. K. Chesterton |b|1874| Gabriel Auguste Daubrée |d|1896| Hubert Opperman |b|1904| John F. Kennedy |b|1917|Sumitro Djojohadikusumo|b|1917| Uroš Drenović |d|1944 La Toya Jackson |b|1956| Fandi Ahmad|b|1962| Margaret Barr |d|1991

• 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