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
- 708 –Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1350 –Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- 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
- 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.
- 1916 –The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
- 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.
- 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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