Event:
Early election tallies show that Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will be the next president of Egypt; el-Sisi, the military commander who removed former president Mohamed Morsi from office due to mass protests, resigned his military position to run for president
More Notable Events on May 29:
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1953 Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
