What happened this day in history August 29

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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