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).
- 1475 –The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1655 –Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
- 1825 –Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- 1831 –Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1833 –The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
- 1861 –American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1871 –Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- 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.
- 1930 –The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1941 –Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
- 1944 –Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1958 –United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 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 –Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
- 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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