53 days before July 21, 2008
would be
May 29, 2008 (Thursday)
Time Zone: America/New_York (GMT-05:00)
• Day numbers: 150
• Week number: 22
• Leap year: 2008 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for May 29, 2008 (Thursday)
• Sunrise time: 06:08 am
• Sunset time: 08:53 pm
• Day length: 14h 44m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for May 29, 2008 (Thursday)
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 30%
• Moon Age: 24.03 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
May 29, 2008 Holidays and National Days
May 29 in History
1990
Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia.
1974
President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1951
C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single-engine plane.
1942
The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union.
1922
Ecuador becomes independent.
1922
The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws.
1916
U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.
1913
The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater.
1911
The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time.
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