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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1848 –
    Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1914 –
    Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
  • 1924 –
    AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
  • 1940 –
    The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
  • 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
  • 1950 –
    The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • 1982 –
    Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

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