About August 29
August 29, 2023 is the 241st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 165 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.
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1526 –Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1758 –The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
- 1835 –The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1861 –American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1898 –The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1903 –The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 1907 –The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 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.
- 1918 –Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1943 –German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
- 1944 –Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1966 –The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
- 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.
- 1991 –Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 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.
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