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May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 216 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 363 – The 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.
• 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
• 1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
• 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
• 1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1414 – Council of Constance.
• 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
• 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
• 1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
• 1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
• 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.
• 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
• 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
• 1852 – Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.
• 1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce was founded, in Hong Kong.
• 1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
• 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
• 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in The Atlanta Journal.
• 1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
• 1903 – In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France provoking a riot.
• 1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
• 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
• 1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
• 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje founded.
• 1924 – AEK Athens F.C. is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
• 1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
• 1932 – World 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.
• 1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
• 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
• 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
• 1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
• 1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
• 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• 1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
• 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
• 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• 1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1989 – Signing of an agreement Egypt–U.S. manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in Egypt.
• 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• 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.
• 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• 2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
• 2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

Births

• 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
• 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and princess (d. 1693)
• 1630 – Charles II of England (d. 1685)
• 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
• 1716 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
• 1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish nobleman, soldier, and politician (d. 1773)
• 1730 – Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (d. 1803)
• 1736 – Patrick Henry, American attorney, planter, and politician, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
• 1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
• 1780 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
• 1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
• 1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
• 1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
• 1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
• 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
• 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (d. 1938)
• 1893 – Max Brand, American author (d. 1944)
• 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
• 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian writer and director (d. 1969)
• 1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
• 1899 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Bob Hope, English-American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
• 1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
• 1906 – T. H. White, English author (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 2002)
• 1908 – Diana Morgan, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
• 1917 – John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
• 1917 – Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, university professor and author (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and scientist
• 1920 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Clifton James, American actor
• 1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer, architect, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French author (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Pepper Paire, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese politician, 3rd President of Senegal
• 1927 – Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
• 1927 – Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
• 1929 – Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist
• 1932 – Richie Guerin, American basketball player
• 1932 – Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
• 1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
• 1934 – Grandma Lee, American comedian
• 1934 – Nanette Newman, English actress and author
• 1934 – Bill Vander Zalm, Canadian politician
• 1937 – Charles W. Pickering, American judge
• 1937 – Irmin Schmidt, German keyboardist and composer (Can)
• 1937 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1989)
• 1938 – Fay Vincent, American lawyer and sports executive, 8th Commissioner of Baseball
• 1939 – Al Unser, American race car driver
• 1940 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan
• 1940 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
• 1942 – Pierre Bourque, French-Canadian politician
• 1942 – Kevin Conway, American actor
• 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and musician (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
• 1945 – Catherine Lara, French singer, violinist and composer
• 1945 – Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
• 1946 – Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Joey Levine, American singer, songwriter and producer
• 1947 – Gene Robinson, American bishop
• 1947 – Constantino Romero, Spanish voice actor, television and radio host (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
• 1948 – Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
• 1949 – Robert Axelrod, American actor
• 1949 – Andrew Clements, American author
• 1949 – Brian Kidd, English footballer
• 1949 – Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo)
• 1949 – Cotter Smith, American actor
• 1950 – Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
• 1951 – Peter Chernin, American businessman
• 1953 – Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor (Oingo Boingo)
• 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
• 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer
• 1954 – Jerry Moran, American politician
• 1955 – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
• 1955 – Sut Jhally, Kenyan-American filmmaker and educator
• 1955 – David Kirschner, American illustrator, producer, and author
• 1955 – Ken Schrader, American race car driver
• 1956 – La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, author, and activist
• 1957 – Jeb Hensarling, American politician
• 1957 – Ted Levine, American actor
• 1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
• 1958 – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
• 1958 – Karen Maruyama, Japanese-American actress and comedienne
• 1958 – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (d. 2011)
• 1958 – Uwe Rapolder, German footballer
• 1958 – Mike Stenhouse, American professional baseball player
• 1959 – Rupert Everett, English actor
• 1959 – Adrian Paul, English actor
• 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist and television host
• 1960 – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist
• 1962 – Eric Davis, American baseball player
• 1962 – John D. LeMay, American actor
• 1962 – Fandi Ahmad, Singapore footballer
• 1962 – Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
• 1963 – Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter and musician (Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane)
• 1963 – Tracey E. Bregman, American actress
• 1963 – Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Claude Loiselle, Canadian professional ice hockey player
• 1963 – Lisa Whelchel, American actress
• 1964 – Howard Mills III, American insurance consultant and politician
• 1964 – Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
• 1967 – Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and musician (Oasis)
• 1967 – Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Steven Levitt, American economist
• 1967 – Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (d. 2008)
• 1968 – Tate George, American basketball player
• 1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian guitarist (Blues Traveler)
• 1970 – Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer
• 1971 – Éric Lucas, Canadian boxer
• 1971 – Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver
• 1972 – Közi, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician (Malice Mizer and Eve of Destiny)
• 1972 – Stanislas, French singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Bill Curley, American basketball player
• 1972 – Simon Jones, English singer and musician (The Verve and The Shining)
• 1973 – Anthony Azizi, American actor
• 1973 – Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter (Third Day)
• 1973 – Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
• 1974 – Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player
• 1974 – Aaron McGruder, American cartoonist and writer
• 1974 – Myf Warhurst, Australian radio and television host
• 1975 – Jason Allison, Canadian ice hockey player and agent
• 1975 – Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
• 1975 – Melanie Brown, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Spice Girls)
• 1975 – David Burtka, American actor and chef
• 1975 – Sven Kubis, German footballer
• 1975 – Sarah Millican, English comedian
• 1975 – Daniel Tosh, American comedian and television host
• 1975 – Anthony Wall, English golfer
• 1976 – Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Jerry Hairston, Jr., American baseball player
• 1976 – Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
• 1976 – Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
• 1976 – Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
• 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Danny Gerard, American actor
• 1977 – António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
• 1977 – Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bassist (The Hives)
• 1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
• 1978 – Lorenzo Odone, American Adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
• 1978 – Adam Rickitt, English actor
• 1979 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer
• 1979 – Shweta Gulati, Indian actress
• 1979 – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
• 1979 – Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singaporean footballer
• 1979 – John Rheinecker, American baseball player
• 1980 – Ernesto Farías, Argentine footballer
• 1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
• 1981 – Justin Chon, American actor
• 1982 – Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
• 1982 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• 1982 – Joanne Borgella, American singer and model
• 1982 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
• 1982 – Matt Macri, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
• 1983 – Joanna Higson, English actress
• 1983 – Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 – Alberto Medina, Mexican footballer
• 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
• 1984 – Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
• 1985 – Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican model
• 1986 – Hornswoggle, American wrestler
• 1987 – Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian athlete
• 1987 – Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Timur Özgöz, German footballer
• 1987 – Rui Sampaio, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 – Noah Reid, Canadian actor
• 1987 – Alessandra Torresani, American actress
• 1988 – Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
• 1988 – Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Riley Keough, American model and actress
• 1989 – Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1989 – Mathew Waters, Australian actor
• 1991 – Kristen Alderson, American actress
• 1991 – Saori Hayami, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1991 – Tom Ljungman, Swedish actor
• 1992 – Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
• 1992 – Gregg Sulkin, English actor
• 1993 – Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
• 1998 – Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress

Deaths

• 1259 – Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
• 1379 – Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
• 1405 – Philippe de Mézières, French soldier and author (b. 1327)
• 1425 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
• 1453 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
• 1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese nobleman and explorer
• 1546 – David Beaton, Scottish cardinal
• 1593 – John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559)
• 1628 – Anaukpetlun, Burmese king (b. 1578)
• 1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
• 1691 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
• 1790 – Israel Putnam, American general (b. 1718)
• 1796 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
• 1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon I (b. 1763)
• 1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
• 1847 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general and marshal (b. 1766)
• 1866 – Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
• 1868 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
• 1873 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
• 1882 – Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
• 1892 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
• 1896 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1903 – Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1864)
• 1903 – Bruce Price, American architect, designed the American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
• 1911 – W. S. Gilbert, English dramatist and poet (b. 1836)
• 1917 – Kate Harrington, American writer, poet, and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 – Robert Bacon, American statesman and diplomat, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 – Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, music critic, composer and music educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German Schutzstaffel officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 – May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 – Fanny Brice, American singer and actress (b. 1891)
• 1951 – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
• 1970 – John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian actor (b.1906)
• 1972 – Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American mechanical engineer and writer (b. 1878)
• 1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, and composer (b. 1929)
• 1977 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, co-founder of United Artists (b. 1892)
• 1979 – John H. Wood, Jr., American judge (b. 1916)
• 1982 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
• 1983 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Soviet politician and historian (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
• 1989 – John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Dinosaurs, and Man) (b. 1943)
• 1989 – George C. Homans, American sociologist (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Erich Honecker, German politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Tamara Toumanova, American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (b. 1966)
• 1997 – George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)
• 2003 – David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
• 2004 – Archibald Cox, American lawyer and educator, 31st United States Solicitor General (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Samuel Dash, American co-chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee (b. 1925)
• 2005 – John D'Amico, National Hockey League linesman and later supervisor of officials (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Hamilton Naki, South African medical assistant (b. 1926)
• 2005 – George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive and writer (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
• 2008 – Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
• 2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, 14th President of Hungary (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Bill Clements, American politician, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Dick Beals, American voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Mark Minkov, Russian composer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, screenwriter, producer, and author (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Jim Unger, English-Canadian cartoonist (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Faith)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bona of Pisa
  • Maximin of Trier
  • Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • May 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Democracy Day (Nigeria)
• Earliest day on which Feast of the Sacred Heart can fall, while July 2 is the latest; celebrated 19 days after Pentecost. (Catholic Church)
• International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (International)
• Oak Apple Day (England)
• Statehood Day (Rhode Island and Wisconsin)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

• Days of the year
• May