On This Day: May 29
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Play today’s puzzle — free on the App Store- 1453🏰 Ottoman forces under Mehmed II breach the walls of Constantinople after 53 days, ending the Byzantine Empire and a thousand years of Roman continuity.
- 1790🏝️ Under threat of a trade embargo, Rhode Island's convention narrowly ratifies the Constitution, becoming the last of the original states to join the union it created.
- 1913🩰 Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring premieres in Paris, its radical score causing an uproar in the audience.
- 1953🧗 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1985A wall collapse before the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus at Heysel Stadium kills 39 fans
- 1994Jeff Gordon wins his first Cup race, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte
- 2009🎈 Pixar's Up opens, lifting a grumpy widower's house with balloons toward South America, a stowaway scout aboard.
- 2010Roy Halladay tosses a perfect game for the Phillies against the Marlins, striking out 11.
- 2021🎖️ Christian Pulisic comes on for Chelsea against Manchester City, the first American man to play in and win a Champions League final.
- 2023Chase Elliott intentionally hooks Denny Hamlin into the wall in the Coca-Cola 600 and earns a one-race suspension
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