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
- 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.
- 1677 –Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
- 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.
- 1914 –Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
- 1918 –Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
- 1939 –Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1973 –Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- 1989 –Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
- 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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