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

  • 1498 –
    Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
  • 1526 –
    Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
  • 1541 –
    The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
  • 1655 –
    Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
  • 1758 –
    The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
  • 1835 –
    The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
  • 1869 –
    The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
  • 1898 –
    The Goodyear tire company is founded.
  • 1903 –
    The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

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