May 29: Day of the Week
May 29, 2022 is the 149th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
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May 29 Historical Event(s)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1790Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th 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.
- 1940The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
- 1953Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.
- 2004The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Who were born on May 29?
- 1913Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
- 1958Annette Bening, American actress
- 1958Karen Maruyama, Japanese-American actress and comedienne
- 1958Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
- 1970Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
- 1971Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
- 1972Stanislas Renoult, French singer
- 1976Egor Titov, Russian footballer
- 1981Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
- 1991Kristen Alderson, American actress
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