About August 29
August 29, 2025 is the 241st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 172 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 29
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1541 –The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1756 –Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
- 1825 –Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- 1831 –Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1861 –American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1885 –Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
- 1898 –The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1915 –US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1918 –Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1930 –The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1941 –Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
- 1944 –Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1965 –The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 1970 –Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
- 1982 –The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1991 –Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
- 1996 –Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- 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.
- 2005 –Hurricane 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.
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