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
- 1414 –Council of Constance.
- 1733 –The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
- 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.
- 1852 –Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.
- 1867 –The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich (“the Compromise”) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
- 1900 –N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
- 1918 –Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
- 1924 –AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
- 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.
- 1989 –Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
- 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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