TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Tuesday May 29, the 149th day of 2018. There are 216 days left in the year.

1328 Philip VI is crowned King of France.

1453 Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53- day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

1660 English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1733 The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.

1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U. S. state.

1807 Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. 1900 N'Djamena is founded as Fort- Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.

1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.

1918 Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.

1919 Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested ( later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

1950 The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's ( adopted) 39th birthday.

1964 The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.

1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral. 1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.

1990 The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

1993 The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.

1999 Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.

1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

2001 The U. S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.