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29 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1658 The Battle of Samugarh was fought, concluding the struggle among Emperor Shah Jahan's heir, Dara Shikoh and his younger siblings, Aurangzeb and Murad Baksh. Aurangzeb won the battle and later executed Dara Shikoh.
- 1914 Tenzing Norgay, Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, was born. He was one of the first two people known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on the same date in 1953.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1453 Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
- 1500 Bartholomeu Diaz, Portuguese mariner and explorer who became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa, died when his ship encountered a huge storm off the Cape of Good Hope and was lost.
- 1874 G K Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, was born in London, United Kingdom. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".
- 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand mountaineer, and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The first successful ascent of the world's highest mountain came after Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans had come within 100 meters of the summit just three days previously.
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