May 29 in history — What Happened Today in History

The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States that allows for the manufacture of F-16 Falcon parts in Egypt.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.

Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

Falklands War: The British Army defeats the Argentine Army at the Battle of Goose Green.

SETA, a Finnish LGBT rights organisation, is founded in Helsinki.

Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.

The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Having deposed them in a January coup South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh has rival Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Lê Văn Kim convicted of "lax morality".

Chinese police open fire on protesters in Yining, Xinjiang, killing at least five people and wounding a dozen others.

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.

The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded.

United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43.

First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.

First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.

World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.

Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by a Royal Italian Army firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.

The Louth flood of 1920, a severe flash flood in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth, results in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in the United Kingdom during the 20th century.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.

The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.

Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a near-riot.

In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.

N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.

The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.

Maika Monroe, American actress and kiteboarder

Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete

Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player

Gregg Sulkin, English actor

Yaime Perez, Cuban discus thrower

Tan Zhongyi, Women's World Chess Champion, 2017–2018

Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher

Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (died 2017)

Ezekiel Ansah, Ghanaian-American football player

Diego Barisone, Argentinian footballer (died 2015)

Riley Keough, American model and actress

Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian captain and pilot (died 2015)

Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast

Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (born 1942)

Doris Hart, American tennis player (born 1925)

Betsy Palmer, American actress (born 1926)

Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (born 1939)

Peter Glaser, Czech-American scientist and engineer (born 1923)

Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (born 1925)

William M. Roth, American businessman (born 1916)

Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (born 1940)

Françoise Blanchard, French actress (born 1954)

Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (born 1928)

Mulgrew Miller, American pianist and composer (born 1955)

Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (born 1923)