May 29th (2014) was a Thursday. It's the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 216 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 29th May, 2014
» Ignatius Aphrem II is enthroned as the Syriac Orthodox Church called Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
May 29th Famous Deaths for 2014
» Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor (b. 1928)
» Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (b. 1939)
» Peter Glaser, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
» Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
» Herman Rattliff, American politician (b. 1926)
» William M. Roth, American businessman (b. 1916)
May 29th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints or 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 observance or International)