📜 This Day in History
May 29
1176Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Legnano in present-day Italy.- 1792The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
- 1900N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.
- 1935A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
- 1954Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
- 2020An oil spill in Norilsk released 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers.
