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

  • 1475 –
    The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
  • 1526 –
    Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
  • 1756 –
    Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
  • 1758 –
    The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
  • 1786 –
    Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
  • 1831 –
    Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
  • 1869 –
    The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
  • 1903 –
    The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
  • 1907 –
    The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
  • 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.
  • 1911 –
    Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
  • 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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