May 29

May 29th will be the 149th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Monday which will be in week 22. We will be the 29th of May 2023 in 9 months.

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What happened that day?

2012: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
2008: A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2004: The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2001: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
1999: Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
1999: Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of [Nigeria](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria), the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1993: The Miss [Sarajevo](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo) beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1990: The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1989: Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
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.
1985: Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1985: Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1982: Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1982: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1973: Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1964: The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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.
1950: The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1945: First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1935: First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
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.
1931: Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1919: Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1918: Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1914: The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
1913: Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1903: In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1900: N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
1886: The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
1868: Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
1867: The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1864: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1861: The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1852: Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1848: Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1807: Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1798: United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are executed as rebels by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
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.
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.
1733: The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
1727: Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1660: English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1453: Fall of [Constantinople](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople): Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1328: Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1176: Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1167: Battle of Monte Porzio: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel.
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.
363: The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.