Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian forces strike Kyiv using Iskander ballistic and cruise missiles, with debris injuring one civilian and damaging infrastructure. Ukraine claims to have shot down all the missiles. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
• Syrian civil war
  • NW Syria clashes
    • Commander-in-chief of the Russian special forces in Syria, Colonel Oleg Pechevisty, is killed by an HTS artillery strike on a military post in the Latakia Province. (SOHR), (Enab Baladi)

International relations

• The Russian Interior Ministry issues an arrest warrant against United States Senator Lindsey Graham over comments Graham made about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment for homosexuality, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023
  • President Yoweri Museveni signs the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law, introducing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and 20 years in prison for the "promotion of homosexuality". (Reuters)

May 29: Feast day of Saint Paul VI (Catholicism); Memorial Day in the United States

• 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire near Legnano in present-day Italy.
• 1792 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
• 1935 – A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
• 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.