About August 29
August 29, 2021 is the 241st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 156 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).
- 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.
- 1831 –Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1903 –The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 1907 –The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 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.
- 1918 –Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1922 –The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- 1941 –Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
- 1943 –German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 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.
- 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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