What happened on May 29? There are more than 285 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About May 29
May 29 is the 150th day of the year 2024. There are 216 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 22nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Ione, Oregon 97843 sunrise will occur at 05:13 AM and sunset will occur at 08:40 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Emerald while the mystical birthstone is Sapphire.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 245 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For May 29
- 363Roman 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.
- 1167Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
- 1176Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
- 1328Philip VI is crowned King of France.
- 1414Council of Constance.
- 1453Fall 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.
- 1660English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
- 1677Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
- 1727Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1733The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
- 1780American 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.
- 1790Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
- 1798United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
- 1848Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
- 1852Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.
- 1861The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
- 1864Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
- 1867The 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.
- 1868The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
- 1886Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- 1900N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
- 1903May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- 1913Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
- 1914Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
- 1918Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
- 1919Albert 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.
- 1919The Republic of Prekmurje founded
- 1924AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
- 1931Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele “Mike” Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Schirru.
- 1932World 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.
- 1939Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
- 1940The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- 1942Bing 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.
- 1945First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
- 1948Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
- 1950The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1953Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- 1954First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
- 1964The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
- 1969General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
- 1973Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
- 1982Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
- 1985Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
- 1985Heysel 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.
- 1988U.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.
- 1989Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
- 1990The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
- 1999Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
- 1999Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
- 2001U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
- 2004The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Who Were Born On May 29?
- 1594Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
- 1627Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and Princess (d. 1693)
- 1630King Charles II of England (d. 1685)
- 1675Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
- 1716Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
- 1722James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
- 1736Patrick Henry, American patriot, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
- 1773Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
- 1794Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
- 1823John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
- 1860Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
- 1863Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
- 1874G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
- 1880Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1892Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (d. 1938)
- 1893Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)
- 1894Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
- 1894Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (d. 1969)
- 1897Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
- 1903Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
- 1905Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
- 1906T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
- 1907Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
- 1908Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1911Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star (d. 1989)
- 1913Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
- 1914Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
- 1915Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
- 1917John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
- 1920John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
- 1921Clifton James, American actor
- 1921Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (Mr Squiggle) (d. 2010)
- 1922Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (d. 2001)
- 1923Bernard Clavel, French novelist (d. 2010)
- 1924Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)
- 1926Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
- 1927Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
- 1927Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (d. 2011)
- 1929Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
- 1932Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
- 1932Richie Guerin, American basketball player
- 1933Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
- 1934Nanette Newman, English actress and author
- 1937Charles W. Pickering, American jurist
- 1937Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (d. 1989)
- 1937Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
- 1938Fay Vincent, American baseball commissioner
- 1939Al Unser, Sr., American race car driver
- 1940Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician
- 1940Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna
- 1941Doug Scott, British mountaineer
- 1942Kevin Conway, American actor
- 1942Pierre Bourque, French-Canadian politician
- 1943Robert W. Edgar, American theologian
- 1945Gary Brooker, English musician (Procol Harum)
- 1945Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
- 1946Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
- 1947Anthony Geary, American actor
- 1947Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
- 1948Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
- 1949Andrew Clements, American author
- 1949Brian Kidd, English footballer
- 1949Cotter Smith, American actor
- 1949Francis Rossi, British musician
- 1949Robert Axelrod, American actor
- 1950Rebbie Jackson, American musician
- 1951Peter Chernin, American television executive
- 1953Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
- 1953Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo)
- 1954Jerry Moran, American politician, junior senator of Kansas
- 1955David Kirschner, American film producer
- 1955John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
- 1955Ken Schrader, American race car driver
- 1955Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
- 1956LaToya Jackson, American singer
- 1957Jeb Hensarling, American politician
- 1957Ted Levine, American actor
- 1958Annette Bening, American actress
- 1958Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (d. 2011)
- 1958Karen Maruyama, Japanese-American actress and comedienne
- 1958Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
- 1959Adrian Paul, English actor
- 1959Rupert Everett, English actor
- 1960Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
- 1960Neil Crone, Canadian actor
- 1961Melissa Etheridge, American musician
- 1962Eric Davis, American baseball player
- 1962Fandi Ahmad, Singapore footballer
- 1962John D. LeMay, American actor
- 1963Blaze Bayley, British singer (Iron Maiden)
- 1963Lisa Whelchel, American actress
- 1963Tracey E. Bregman, American actress
- 1963Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
- 1964Howard Mills III, American politician
- 1964Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
- 1967Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (d. 2008)
- 1967Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player
- 1967Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
- 1967Steven Levitt, American economist
- 1968Tate George, American basketball player
- 1969Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
- 1970Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
- 1971Bernd Mayländer, Formula One Safety Car driver
- 1971Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
- 1972Bill Curley, American basketball player
- 1972Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
- 1972Simon Jones, British musician (The Verve)
- 1972Stanislas Renoult, French singer
- 1973Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
- 1973Anthony Azizi, American actor
- 1973Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
- 1974Aaron McGruder, American cartoonist
- 1974Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter TV personality
- 1974Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player
- 1975Anthony Wall, English golfer
- 1975Daniel Tosh, American comedian
- 1975David Burtka, American actor and chef
- 1975Jason Allison, Canadian professional ice hockey
- 1975Melanie Brown, English musician and actress (Spice Girls)
- 1975Sarah Millican, English comedian
- 1976Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
- 1976David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
- 1976Egor Titov, Russian footballer
- 1976Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
- 1976Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
- 1976Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
- 1977Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
- 1977Danny Gerard, American actor
- 1977Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
- 1977Scott Allen, American figure skater
- 1978Adam Rickitt, British actor
- 1978Lorenzo Odone, American patient (d. 2008)
- 1978Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
- 1978Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
- 1979Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singapore footballer
- 1979Arne Friedrich, German footballer
- 1979Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
- 1979Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
- 1979John Rheinecker, American baseball player
- 1979Shweta Gulati, Indian television actress
- 1980Ernesto Farías, Argentine footballer
- 1981Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
- 1981Justin Chon, American actor
- 1982Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
- 1982Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
- 1982Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
- 1982Joanne Borgella, American model and singer
- 1982Kim Tae-Kyun, South Korean baseball player
- 1982Matt Macri, American baseball player
- 1983Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
- 1983Joanna Higson, English actress
- 1984Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
- 1985Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler
- 1986Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican fashion model
- 1987Alessandra Torresani, American actress
- 1987Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
- 1987Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian athlete
- 1987Noah Reid, Canadian actor
- 1987Timur Özgöz, German footballer
- 1989Riley Keough, American model
- 1991Kristen Alderson, American actress
- 1992Gregg Sulkin, British Actor
- 1995Asfak Khalid, Indian Producer, Director, Singer & Politician
Who Died On May 29?
- 1259King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
- 1379King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
- 1405Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
- 1425Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
- 1453Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
- 1500Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
- 1546David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal
- 1593John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader (b. 1559)
- 1628Anaukpetlun, King of Burma (b. 1578)
- 1660Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
- 1691Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
- 1790Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
- 1796Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
- 1814Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
- 1829Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
- 1847Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
- 1866Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
- 1868Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
- 1873Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
- 1882Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
- 1892Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
- 1896Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1903Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
- 1903Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)
- 1910Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
- 1911W. S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
- 1917Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (b. 1831)
- 1919Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
- 1935Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
- 1939Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
- 1942John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
- 1946Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
- 1948Dame May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
- 1951Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (b. 1885)
- 1951Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)
- 1953Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
- 1958Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
- 1970John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
- 1972Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
- 1972Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
- 1973P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
- 1977Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
- 1979John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
- 1979Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892)
- 1982Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
- 1983Arvīds Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
- 1989John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
- 1993Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
- 1994Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
- 1996Tamara Toumanova, Ballet star and actress (b. 1919)
- 1997George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
- 1997Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)
- 1998Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)
- 2002Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
- 2003David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
- 2004Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
- 2004Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
- 2005George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
- 2005Hamilton Naki, South African medical assistant (b. 1926)
- 2006Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
- 2006Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
- 2007Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
- 2007Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian politician (b. 1927)
- 2008Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2008Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
- 2009Karine Ruby, French snowboarder and Olympic champion (b. 1978)
- 2010Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (b. 1936)
- 2011Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
- 2011Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
- 2011Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949)
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