THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 29
May 29 in history
What happened on May 29: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1453, 1935 and 1970, each linked to the map that shows it.
Constantinople falls to Mehmed II after eleven centuries of Roman rule. Scholars flee west with their libraries.
— Battle of Luding Bridge
29 May 1935 — Under fire, twenty-two volunteers cross a chain bridge over the Dadu gorge while its planks burn. They hold the only crossing before the pursuing forces arrive. The story grew in the telling, but the crossing itself was real. It saved the march from the fate Shi Dakai had met on this same river.
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— Ford Dagenham women’s strike
Jun 1968 — After Ford grades their work as “unskilled”, 187 women sewing machinists at its Dagenham plant strike for three weeks. Car production stops. Barbara Castle brokers a deal, and her Equal Pay Act follows on 29 May 1970.
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