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
- 1176 –Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
- 1414 –Council of Constance.
- 1453 –Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. Although the date of May 29, 1453, is that of the Julian Calendar, the event is commemorated in Istanbul on this day of the present Gregorian calendar.
- 1660 –English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
- 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.
- 1886 –Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- 1919 –The Republic of Prekmurje founded
- 1931 –Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele “Mike” Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Schirru.
- 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.
- 1945 –First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
- 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.
- 1988 –U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 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.
- 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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