About May 29

May 29, 2022 is the 149th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 238 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
  • 1414 –
    Council of Constance.
  • 1660 –
    English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
  • 1727 –
    Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
  • 1733 –
    The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
  • 1861 –
    The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
  • 1886 –
    Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
  • 1900 –
    N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
  • 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.
  • 1919 –
    The Republic of Prekmurje founded
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
  • 1973 –
    Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
  • 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.

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