About May 29
May 29, 2024 is the 150th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 245 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 29
- 363 –Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
- 1176 –Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
- 1790 –Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
- 1861 –The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
- 1868 –The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
- 1918 –Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
- 1919 –Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington’s observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
- 1932 –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.
- 1939 –Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
- 1940 –The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- 1942 –Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
- 1950 –The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1953 –Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- 1985 –Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
- 1985 –Heysel Stadium disaster: At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans.
- 1990 –The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
- 1999 –Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
- 1999 –Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
- 2001 –U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
- 2004 –The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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