What are the important events that happened on May 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 29 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 16, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 485,688 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontaenneagon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,542 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 29 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1727 –Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1798 –United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
- 1864 –Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
- 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.
- 1913 –Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
- 1950 –The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 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.
- 2001 –U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
Who were born on May 29?
- 1860 –Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
- 1941 –Doug Scott, British mountaineer
- 1945 –Gary Brooker, English musician (Procol Harum)
- 1947 –Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
- 1949 –Robert Axelrod, American actor
- 1955 –Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
- 1959 –Adrian Paul, English actor
- 1975 –Daniel Tosh, American comedian
- 1975 –David Burtka, American actor and chef
- 1979 –Arne Friedrich, German footballer
Who died on May 29?
- 1453 –Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
- 1796 –Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
- 1829 –Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
- 1847 –Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
- 1882 –Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
- 1989 –John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
- 1993 –Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
- 1994 –Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
- 2004 –Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
- 2011 –Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949)
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