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August 29
Events
708
– Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional
Japanese date
: August 10, 708).
1261
–
Pope Urban IV
succeeds
Pope Alexander IV
as the 182nd pope.
1315
–
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.
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 the kingdoms of
France
and England.
1484
–
Pope Innocent VIII
succeeds
Pope Sixtus IV
.
1498
–
Vasco da Gama
decides to depart
Calicut
and return to
Kingdom of Portugal
.
1521
– The
Ottoman Turks
capture
Nándorfehérvár
(Belgrade).
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
.
1728
– The city of
Nuuk
in
Greenland
is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the
royal governor
Claus Paarss
.
1756
–
Frederick the Great
attacks
Saxony
, beginning the
Seven Years' War
.
1758
– The first American
Indian reservation
is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1778
–
American Revolutionary War
: British and American forces battle indecisively at the
Battle of Rhode Island
.
1786
–
Shays's Rebellion
, an armed uprising of
Massachusetts
farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1807
– British troops under Sir
Arthur Wellesly
defeat a Danish militia outside
Copenhagen
in the
Battle of Køge
.
1825
–
Kingdom of Portugal
recognizes the Independence of
Brazil
.
1831
–
Michael Faraday
discovers
electromagnetic induction
.
1842
–
Treaty of Nanking
signing ends the
First Opium War
.
1861
–
American Civil War
:
United States Navy
squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet,
North Carolina
.
1869
– The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing
rack railway
.
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).
1885
–
Gottlieb Daimler
patents the world's first
internal combustion
motorcycle
, the
Reitwagen
.
1895
–
Rugby league
is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the
George Hotel, Huddersfield
.
1898
– The
Goodyear
tire company is founded.
1903
– The , the last of the five s, is launched.
1907
– The
Quebec Bridge
collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
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.
1911
–
Ishi
, considered the last
Native American
to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern
California
.
1914
– Start of the
Battle of St. Quentin
in which the French
Fifth Army
counter-attacked the invading Germans at
Saint-Quentin, Aisne
.
1915
– US Navy salvage divers raise , the first U.S.
submarine
sunk in an 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.
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
.
1943
–
German-occupied Denmark
scuttles most of its
navy
; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944
–
Slovak National Uprising
takes place as 60,000
Slovak
troops turn against the
Nazi
s.
1946
– is decommissioned.
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.
1958
–
United States Air Force Academy
opens in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
.
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
.
1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker
Sayyid Qutb
is executed for plotting the assassination of President
Gamal Abdel Nasser
.
1970
–
Chicano Moratorium
against the
Vietnam War
,
East Los Angeles, California
. Police riot kills three people, including journalist
Rubén Salazar
.
1979
–
Jeffrey R. MacDonald
is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.
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
.
1991 –
Libero Grassi
, an Italian businessman from
Palermo
is killed by the
Mafia
after taking a solitary stand against their
extortion
demands.
1996
–
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801
, a
Tupolev Tu-154
, crashes into a mountain on the
Arctic
island of
Spitsbergen
, killing all 141 aboard.
1997
– At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
GIA
in the
Rais massacre
,
Algeria
.
2003
–
Ayatollah
Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
, the
Shia Muslim
leader in
Iraq
, is
assassin
ated in a
terrorist
bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a
mosque
in
Najaf
.
2004
–
Michael Schumacher
wins his 5th consecutive
Formula One Drivers' championship
(and 7th overall) at the
2004 Belgian Grand Prix
by finishing second to
Kimi Raikkonen
to beat the 47-year-old record held by
Juan Manuel Fangio
.
2005
–
Hurricane Katrina
devastates
much of the
U.S. Gulf Coast
from Louisiana to the
Florida Panhandle
, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 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
.
2012
– At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the
Xiaojiawan coal mine
, located at
Panzhihua
in
Sichuan Province
, China.
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