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, 1,748,476,800 seconds 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
- 1660 –English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1790 –Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1939 –Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
- 1945 –First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1906 –T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
- 1922 –Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (d. 2001)
- 1958 –Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (d. 2011)
- 1962 –John D. LeMay, American actor
- 1963 –Lisa Whelchel, American actress
- 1976 –Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 –Egor Titov, Russian footballer
- 1977 –Scott Allen, American figure skater
- 1979 –John Rheinecker, American baseball player
- 1981 –Justin Chon, American actor
Who died on May 29?
- 1814 –Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
- 1847 –Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
- 1866 –Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
- 1882 –Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
- 1892 –Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
- 1903 –Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
- 1903 –Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)
- 1951 –Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)
- 1953 –Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
- 2007 –Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian politician (b. 1927)
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