May 29: International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers; Democracy Day in Nigeria
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: A mainly Loyalist force rejected the Continental Army troops' surrender at the Battle of Waxhaws and continued killing the Patriot soldiers, including men who were not resisting.
- 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a widely successful concert tour of the US under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
- 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
- 1935 – The Messerschmitt Bf 109 (pictured), the most produced fighter aircraft in history, had its first flight.
- 1953 – New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary and Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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