📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 - May 29

📜 Events:

* 363 — Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army at the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.

* 1176 — Battle of Legnano: the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1453 — Fall of Constantinople; Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror, captures Constantinople after a six-week siege, ending the Byzantine Empire, an event that many consider marking the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age.

* 1919 — Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Stanley Eddington and Andrew Crommelin.

* 1936 — The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) is created under its former name, the National Institute of Statistics.

* 1953 — Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary are the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

* 2012 — An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.

*⭐ Births:*

* 1867 — Adolfo Caminha, Brazilian writer (d. 1897).

* 1874 — G. K. Chesterton, British writer (d. 1936).

* 1917 — John F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1963).

* 1929 — Peter Higgs, British physicist (d. 2024).

* 1963 — Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress.

* 1975 — Danton Mello, Brazilian actor and voice actor.

* 1984 — Carmelo Anthony, former American basketball player.

*🕊️ Deaths:*

* 1453 — Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404).

* 1500 — Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. 1450).

* 1814 — Joséphine de Beauharnais, French empress consort (b. 1763).

* 1982 — Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938).

* 1997 — Jeff Buckley, American musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1966).

* 2020 — Gilberto Dimenstein, Brazilian journalist (b. 1956).

* 2025 — Roberto Gomes Guimarães, Brazilian prelate (b. 1936).

*📍 Holidays and Cyclical Events:*

*Brazil:*

* Anniversary of the municipality of São Pedro do Turvo - São Paulo

* Anniversary of the municipality of Potim - São Paulo

* Anniversary of the municipality of Ajuricaba - Rio Grande do Sul

* Anniversary of the municipality of Uruguaiana - Rio Grande do Sul

* Anniversary of the municipality of Santo Antônio de Jesus - Bahia

* National Day of Demonstrations and Strikes

* Forklift Operator Day

* Geographer’s Day

* Statistician’s Day

*Turkey:*

* Day of the Capture of Constantinople — Istanbul

*International:*

* World Energy Day.

* International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
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