About May 29
May 29, 2025 is the 149th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 264 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 29
- 1167 –Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
- 1176 –Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
- 1414 –Council of Constance.
- 1660 –English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
- 1727 –Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1798 –United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
- 1914 –Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
- 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.
- 1924 –AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
- 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.
- 1945 –First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
- 1950 –The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1954 –First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
- 1964 –The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
- 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.
- 1989 –Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
- 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.
- 2004 –The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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