About May 29
May 29, 2021 is the 149th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 248 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.
- 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.
- 1727 –Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 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.
- 1852 –Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.
- 1861 –The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
- 1864 –Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
- 1903 –May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- 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.
- 1945 –First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
- 1948 –Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
- 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.
- 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.
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