About August 29
August 29, 2024 is the 242nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 153 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 29
- 1786 –Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1861 –American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1869 –The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
- 1885 –Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
- 1898 –The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1903 –The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 1910 –The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
- 1915 –US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1916 –The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
- 1918 –Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1922 –The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- 1930 –The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1944 –Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1949 –Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1950 –Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
- 1965 –The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 1982 –The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1997 –At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 2003 –Ayatollah 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.
- 2007 –2007 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.
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