FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

1176-Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa

1453-Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire

1953-Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Mount Everest

1957-Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators

1959-Charles de Gaulle forms French Government

1973-Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles CA

1982-Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war

1987-Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

1989-Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty

1990-Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic

1994-Great comet-iceball seen above North Sea

1994-Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election