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
- 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.
- 1498 –Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 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.
- 1756 –Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
- 1786 –Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1831 –Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1835 –The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1842 –Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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