Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 29
This is a list of selected May 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Staging area
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
-
Charles II of England -
Arthur Eddington -
Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire -
Place de la Nation, N'Djamena -
Bing Crosby -
RMS Empress of Ireland -
Jenny Lind -
Messerschmitt Bf 109 -
Igor Stravinsky}}
.jpg)
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers; | refimprove |
| 363 – Roman emperor Julian defeated Sassanid Emperor Shapur II outside the walls of Ctesiphon, but was unable to take the city. | refimprove |
| 1167 – A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army. | refimprove |
| 1328 – Philip VI of France was crowned at Notre-Dame de Reims, beginning the Valois Dynasty. | refimprove section |
| 1660 – The monarchy in England was restored under King Charles II. | unreferenced section |
| 1780 – American Revolutionary War: A mainly Loyalist force rejected the Continental Army troops' surrender at the Battle of Waxhaws and continued killing the Patriot soldiers, including men who were not resisting. | refimprove section |
| 1848 – Wisconsin became the 30th U.S. state admitted to the Union. | refimprove section |
| 1867 – By the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, signed by Franz Joseph I of Austria and a Hungarian delegation led by Ferenc Deák, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established. | lots of CN tags in one section ("Ethnic minorities") |
| 1914 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the collier SS Storstad, killing 1,012 on board. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – Observations made by English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. | Experiment: refimprove; Eddington: refimprove section |
| 1964 – Having deposed them in a January coup, South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Lê Văn Kim convicted of "lax morality". | Tran: refimprove section |
| 1982 – Falklands War: Although they had successfully defended their position, Argentine troops surrendered in the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower, ending the Battle of Goose Green. | inappropriate tone |
| 1985 – A wall at Brussels' Heysel Stadium collapsed under the pressure of football fans escaping a riot before the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, killing 39 people and injuring over 600 others. | refimprove section |
| David Beaton |d|1546 | referencing issues |
| Joyce Yakubowich |b|1953 | unreferenced section |
| Ana Beatriz Barros |b|1982 | unreferenced section (Filmography) |
| * 1935 – The Messerschmitt Bf 109, the most-produced fighter aircraft in history, made its first flight. | Undercited |
| * 1954 – The first annual Bilderberg meeting of leaders from European countries and the United States opened in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. | Date not supported by source cited |
| * 1886 – Wilhelm Steinitz defeated Johannes Zukertort to become the first official world chess champion. | Article say 29 March |
Eligible
- 1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols entered and began looting Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty of China, after a 13-month siege.
- 1453 – With the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
- 1416 – A squadron of the Venetian navy captured many Ottoman ships at the Battle of Gallipoli, confirming Venetian naval superiority in the Aegean Sea for the next few decades.
- 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
- 1900 – N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.
- 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
- 1913 – During the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (pictured) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience.
- 1918 – World War I: Armenian forces defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Sardarabad, halting the Turkish advance and preventing further destruction of the Armenian nation.
- 1942 – Bing Crosby recorded his version of the song "White Christmas", which went on to become the best-selling single worldwide, with more than 50 million copies sold.
- 1999 – President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.
- Born/died: | Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier |b|1627| Patrick Henry |b|1736| Benedetto Pistrucci |b|1783| Winfield Scott |d|1866| Rudolf Tobias |b|1873| G. K. Chesterton |b|1874| Gabriel Auguste Daubrée |d|1896| Hubert Opperman |b|1904| John F. Kennedy |b|1917|Sumitro Djojohadikusumo|b|1917| Uroš Drenović |d|1944 La Toya Jackson |b|1956| Fandi Ahmad|b|1962| Margaret Barr |d|1991
Notes
- Arthur Sullivan appears on May 13, so Gilbert should not appear in the same year
- Roger Bannister appears on May 6, so Leather should not appear in the same year
May 29: Feast day of Saint Paul VI (Catholicism); Memorial Day in the United States
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
- 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire near Legnano in present-day Italy.
- 1792 – The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.
- 1935 – A strike by copper miners in Northern Rhodesia ended after six workers were shot and killed by police.
- 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
- Louise-Adéone Drölling (b. 1797)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold (b. 1897)
- John Barrymore (d. 1942)