THURSDAY, May 29, 2025

1453-Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Ottoman Turks under Mehmed the Conqueror, ending the Byzantine Empire after 1,100 years

1592-Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet in the Battle of Sacheon, the first use of a Korean Turtle ship

1660-On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end

1851-Sojourner Truth addresses the first Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio

1953-Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition

1982-Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war

1989-Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of Democracy

2011-Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism started by Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam