About August 29

August 29, 2024 is the 242nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 153 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.
  • 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.
  • 1786 –
    Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
  • 1835 –
    The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
  • 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
  • 1898 –
    The Goodyear tire company is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1915 –
    US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
  • 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.
  • 1949 –
    Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
  • 1958 –
    United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • 1966 –
    The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
  • 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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