What happened on August 29? There are more than 283 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About August 29
August 29 is the 242nd day of the year 2024. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 35th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Pineville, West Virginia 24874 sunrise will occur at 06:53 AM and sunset will occur at 08:00 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Peridot while the mystical birthstone is Diamond.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 153 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For August 29
- 708Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1350Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
- 1475The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
- 1498Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
- 1521The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1526Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1541The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1655Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
- 1756Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
- 1758The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
- 1778American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- 1786Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1825Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- 1831Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1833The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
- 1835The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1842Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- 1861American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1869The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
- 1871Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- 1885Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
- 1898The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1903The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 1907The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1910The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
- 1911Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 1915US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1916The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
- 1918Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1922The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- 1930The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1941Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
- 1943German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
- 1944Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1949Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1950Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
- 1958United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1965The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 1966The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
- 1970Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
- 1982The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1991Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
- 1991Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1996Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- 1997At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 2003Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
- 2005Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
- 20072007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
Who Were Born On August 29?
- 1434Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs (d. 1472)
- 1619Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
- 1628John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
- 1632John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1694Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
- 1725Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
- 1728Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
- 1756Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
- 1756Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
- 1777Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
- 1780Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1805Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
- 1809Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
- 1810Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (d. 1884)
- 1811Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
- 1842Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907)
- 1843David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
- 1844Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
- 1857Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
- 1862Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- 1862Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
- 1871Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
- 1876Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1876Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
- 1898Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
- 1901Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1904Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1905Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (d. 1941)
- 1905Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1910Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
- 1912Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1912Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
- 1912Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
- 1913Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
- 1915Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1915Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
- 1916George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1916Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
- 1917Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1920Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1922Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (d. 2008)
- 1923Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
- 1923Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
- 1923Richard Attenborough, English film director
- 1924Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1924Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
- 1926Betty Lynn, American actress
- 1926Helene Ahrweiler, Greek Byzantinologist
- 1926María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
- 1928Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1928Herbert Meier, Swiss writer
- 1929Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
- 1930Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
- 1931Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
- 1931Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
- 1932Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (d. 1996)
- 1933Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1934Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
- 1934John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
- 1935László Garai, Hungarian scientist, psychologist
- 1935William Friedkin, American film director
- 1936John McCain, American politician
- 1937James Florio, American politician
- 1938Christian Müller, German footballer
- 1938Elliott Gould, American actor
- 1938Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1995–1999
- 1939Joel Schumacher, American film director
- 1939Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian athlete
- 1940Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1940James Brady, American White House Press Secretary and gun control activist
- 1941Robin Leach, English television host
- 1942James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
- 1942John Heuser, Electron microscopist
- 1943Dick Halligan, musician & composer
- 1943Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996)
- 1945Chris Copping, musician, singer-songwriter
- 1945Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
- 1946Bob Beamon, American long jumper
- 1946Dimitris Christofias, Cypriot politician and sixth President of the Republic of Cyprus
- 1947James Hunt, English racing driver (d. 1993)
- 1947Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
- 1949Werner Kaiser, German footballer
- 1950Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
- 1950Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
- 1950Frank Henenlotter, American director
- 1952Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
- 1952Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
- 1952Karen Hesse, American children’s writer
- 1953James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
- 1954Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
- 1955Diamanda Galas, American singer
- 1955Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
- 1955Jacob Lew, American government official
- 1956Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1956GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
- 1956Mark Morris, American choreographer
- 1957Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
- 1958Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor
- 1958Michael Jackson, American pop singer (d. 2009)
- 1959Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
- 1959Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
- 1959Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter
- 1959Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- 1959Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician
- 1959Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family
- 1960Todd English, American chef
- 1960Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist
- 1961Carsten Fischer, German field-hockey player
- 1961Rodney McCray, American basketball player
- 1962Carl Banks, American football player
- 1962Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
- 1962Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor
- 1963Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
- 1964Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
- 1965Dina Spybey, American actress
- 1965Will Perdue, American basketball player
- 1966Jörn Großkopf, German footballer
- 1967Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
- 1967Jiří Růžek, Czech photographer
- 1968Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
- 1969Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1971Alex Griffin, bassist, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
- 1971Carla Gugino, American actress
- 1971Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1972Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
- 1973Adam Sessler, American TV show host
- 1973Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
- 1974Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
- 1975Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
- 1975Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
- 1975Kyle Cook, guitarist, Matchbox 20
- 1976Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
- 1976Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
- 1976Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
- 1976Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
- 1976Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
- 1977Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
- 1977Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
- 1977Devean George, American basketball player
- 1977Jo Weil, German actor
- 1977John Hensley, American actor
- 1977John Patrick O'Brien, American footballer
- 1977Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
- 1978Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
- 1979Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
- 1979Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
- 1980Chris Simms, American football player
- 1980David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980David West, American basketball player
- 1980Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
- 1980Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
- 1981Dennis Oh, Korean-American actor
- 1981Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
- 1981Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
- 1981Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
- 1982Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
- 1984Alexander Hug, German rugby player
- 1985Jeffrey Licon, American actor
- 1985Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
- 1986Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
- 1986Lea Michele, American actress and singer
- 1987Tony Kane, Irish footballer
- 1990Nicole Anderson, American actress
- 1990Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
- 1991Anikó Kovacsics, Hungarian handball player
- 1992Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1993Liam Payne, Member of British/Irish boy band One Direction
- 1993Lucas Cruikshank, American Internet personality
Who Died On August 29?
- 886Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
- 1093Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1123King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
- 1395Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
- 1442John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
- 1526King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in the Battle of Mohács) (b. 1506)
- 1526Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (killed in the Battle of Mohács) (b. c. 1475)
- 1533Atahualpa, Inca emperor (b. 1497)
- 1542Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. c. 1516)
- 1657John Lilburne, English dissenter (b. 1614)
- 1712Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
- 1749Matthias Bel, Hungarian polymath (b. 1684)
- 1769Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
- 1780Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
- 1799Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
- 1844Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
- 1856Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
- 1866Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1846)
- 1877Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
- 1889Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
- 1891Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843)
- 1892William Forbes Skene, pioneer Scottish historian and Celtist (b. 1809)
- 1904Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
- 1930William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
- 1931David T. Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1867)
- 1935Queen Astrid of the Belgians (b. 1905)
- 1946Adolphus Busch III, American brewing magnate and President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Company (b. 1891)
- 1946Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
- 1951Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
- 1966Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
- 1968Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
- 1971Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
- 1972Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
- 1975Éamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1976Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
- 1976Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
- 1977Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
- 1977Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1981Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
- 1982Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
- 1982Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
- 1983Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1984Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
- 1985Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
- 1987Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
- 1987Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1989Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
- 1990Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
- 1991Libero Grassi, Italian businessman killed by the Mafia (b. 1924)
- 1992Félix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (b. 1930)
- 1992Teddy Turner, English comedian (b. 1917)
- 1995Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
- 2000Shelagh Fraser, British actress (b. 1922)
- 2000Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
- 2001Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
- 2001Graeme “Shirley” Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (b. 1952)
- 2002Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
- 2003Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
- 2003Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
- 2003Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
- 2004Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
- 2007Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
- 2007James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
- 2007Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
- 2007Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
- 2008Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
- 2008Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)
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