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History Events on August 29

By  Nancy Reis  29 Aug   141 Views

History Events on August 29

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The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

#The_Beatles

In 1966

British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.

#Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington

In 1807

Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.

#Frederick_the_Great

In 1756

The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

#Jones_Law_(Philippines)

In 1916

The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

#St_Kilda,_Scotland

In 1930

Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.

#Libero_Grassi

In 1991

World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.

#Bapaume

In 1918

Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.

#Mainz_Cathedral

In 1009

The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.

#Nuuk

In 1728

Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

#Battle_of_Mohács

In 1526

Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

#Sayyid_Qutb

In 1966

Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.

#Pope_Innocent_VIII

In 1484

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

#Michael_Faraday

In 1831

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.

#Japan-Korea_Treaty_of_1910

In 1910

World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.

#World_War_I

In 1914

The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

#Royal_Canadian_Navy

In 1911

The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.

#Treaty_of_Picquigny

In 1475

The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.

#Treaty_of_Easton

In 1758

The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.

#Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway

In 1869

World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

#Slovak_National_Uprising

In 1944

The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.

#Russian_battleship_Slava

In 1903

Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

#Treaty_of_Nanking

In 1842

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).

#Emperor_Meiji

In 1871

The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

#Quebec_Bridge

In 1907

Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

#Wad?kaichin

In 708

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

#Hurricane_Katrina

In 2005

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

#Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union

In 1991

The Goodyear tire company is founded.

#Goodyear_Tire_and_Rubber_Company

In 1898

Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

#Korean_War

In 1950

Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

#Gottlieb_Daimler

In 1885

American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.

#American_Civil_War

In 1861

Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

#Shays'_Rebellion

In 1786

The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

#Chemical_element

In 1982

United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

#United_States_Air_Force_Academy

In 1958

World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

#World_War_II

In 1941

Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

#Ishi

In 1911

American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

#American_Revolutionary_War

In 1778

Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.

#Pope_Urban_IV

In 1261

Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.

#Vasco_da_Gama

In 1498

Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

#Battle_of_Winchelsea

In 1350

At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.

In 2012

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.

In 2003

At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

In 1997

Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.

In 1997

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

In 1996

Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

In 1970

The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1965

Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

In 1949

World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

In 1943

US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

In 1915

The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

In 1541

The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).

In 1521

Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.

In 1315

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