SomeFacts | May 29

On this day - May 29

363 — The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the ...

1108 — Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ...

1167 — Battle of Monte Porzio: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander ...

1176 — Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor ...

1233 — Mongol–Jin war: The Mongols entered Kaifeng after a successful ...

1328 — Philip VI is crowned King of France.

1416 — Battle of Gallipoli: The Venetians under Pietro Loredan defeat ...

1453 — Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II ...

1658 — Battle of Samugarh: decisive battle in the struggle for the ...

1660 — English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the thrones of ...

1733 — The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: At the Waxhaws Massacre, the ...

1790 — Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original ...

1798 — United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen ...

1807 — Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of ...

1825 — The Coronation of Charles X of France takes place in Reims ...

1851 — Sojourner Truth delivers her famous Ain't I a Woman? ...

1852 — Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.

1861 — The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong ...

1864 — Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first ...

1867 — The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the ...

1886 — The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement ...

1900 — N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander ...

1903 — In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, ...

1913 — Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring ...

1914 — The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of ...

1918 — Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.

1919 — Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested ...

1920 — The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the ...

1931 — Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed ...

1932 — World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in ...

1935 — First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.

1945 — First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy ...

1947 — United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, ...

1948 — United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded.

1950 — The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, ...

1953 — Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first ...

1962 — Chinese police open fire on protesters in Yining, Xinjiang, ...

1964 — Having deposed them in a January coup South Vietnamese leader ...

1964 — The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the ...

1973 — Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, ...

1974 — SETA, a Finnish LGBT rights organisation, is founded in ...

1982 — Falklands War: the British Army defeats the Argentine Army at ...

1982 — Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit ...

1985 — Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at ...

1985 — Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans ...

1988 — U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the ...

1989 — Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States ...

1990 — The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris ...

1993 — The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo ...

1999 — Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the ...

1999 — Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the ...

2001 — The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey ...

2004 — The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, ...

2005 — France rejects the Constitution of the European Union in a ...

2008 — A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes ...

2012 — A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, ...

2015 — One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.

2020 — An oil spill in Norilsk releases 17,500 tons of diesel oil ...

2021 — A Cessna Citation I/SP crashes into Percy Priest Lake in ...

2022 — Tara Air Flight 197 crashes in Nepal's Mustang District, ...