About August 29
August 29, 2020 is the 242nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 167 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 29
- 1350 –Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
- 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.
- 1526 –Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1541 –The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1758 –The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
- 1831 –Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1835 –The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1869 –The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
- 1965 –The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 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 –Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 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.
- 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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