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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_29" title="May 29">May 29</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI" title="Pope Paul VI">Saint Paul VI</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day" title="Memorial Day">Memorial Day</a></b> in the United States
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1176" title="1176">1176</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelphs_and_Ghibellines" title="Guelphs and Ghibellines">Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines</a>: Troops of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_League" title="Lombard League">Lombard League</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Legnano" title="Battle of Legnano">defeated</a></b> forces of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legnano" title="Legnano">Legnano</a> in present-day Italy.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792" title="1792">1792</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sejm" title="Great Sejm">Great Sejm</a></b> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a> was disbanded following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Russian_War_of_1792" title="Polish–Russian War of 1792">Russian invasion of Poland</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935" title="1935">1935</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Copperbelt_strike" title="1935 Copperbelt strike">A strike by copper miners</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rhodesia" title="Northern Rhodesia">Northern Rhodesia</a> ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a> – The mountaineers <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary" title="Edmund Hillary">Edmund Hillary</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay" title="Tenzing Norgay">Tenzing Norgay</a></b> became the first people <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_expedition" title="1953 British Mount Everest expedition">to reach the summit of Mount Everest</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954" title="1954">1954</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Leather" title="Diane Leather">Diane Leather</a></b> became the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_run_world_record_progression#Women" title="Mile run world record progression">first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise-Ad%C3%A9one_Dr%C3%B6lling" title="Louise-Adéone Drölling">Louise-Adéone Drölling</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1797); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Wolfgang_Korngold" title="Erich Wolfgang Korngold">Erich Wolfgang Korngold</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1897); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barrymore" title="John Barrymore">John Barrymore</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1942)</p>
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