About May 29
May 29, 2025 is the 149th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 264 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.
- 1176 –Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1868 –The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
- 1913 –Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
- 1918 –Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
- 1940 –The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- 1950 –The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1953 –Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- 1954 –First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
- 1969 –General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
- 1982 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
- 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.
- 1990 –The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
- 2004 –The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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