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Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 29
- 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.
- 1733 –The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
- 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.
- 1861 –The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
- 1886 –Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- 1913 –Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
- 1924 –AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
- 1973 –Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on May 29?
- 1938 –Fay Vincent, American baseball commissioner
- 1949 –Brian Kidd, English footballer
- 1953 –Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo)
- 1957 –Jeb Hensarling, American politician
- 1962 –Eric Davis, American baseball player
- 1978 –Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
- 1979 –John Rheinecker, American baseball player
- 1982 –Kim Tae-Kyun, South Korean baseball player
- 1983 –Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 –Timur Özgöz, German footballer
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