What are the important events that happened on August 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 29 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 16, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,136 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontadigon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,269 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 29 Historical Events
1475 –
The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
1521 –
The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
1756 –
Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
1758 –
The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1869 –
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
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 Nazis.
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.
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.
Who were born on August 29?
1628 –
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1912 –
Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1916 –
George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1930 –
Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 –
Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1952 –
Karen Hesse, American children’s writer
1971 –
Alex Griffin, bassist, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
1975 –
Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
1976 –
Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1992 –
Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Who died on August 29?
1657 –
John Lilburne, English dissenter (b. 1614)
1712 –
Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
1749 –
Matthias Bel, Hungarian polymath (b. 1684)
1866 –
Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1846)
1892 –
William Forbes Skene, pioneer Scottish historian and Celtist (b. 1809)
1971 –
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
1972 –
Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
1977 –
Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
1984 –
Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1990 –
Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
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