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).
  • 1521 –
    The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
  • 1758 –
    The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
  • 1833 –
    The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
  • 1835 –
    The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1903 –
    The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
  • 1907 –
    The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
  • 1918 –
    Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
  • 1943 –
    German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
  • 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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