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 241st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 16, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,756,425,600 seconds 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 ‘dihectatetracontahenagon’ day.
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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 172 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 4,634 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 29 Historical Events
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- 1833 –The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
- 1835 –The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1898 –The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1903 –The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 1922 –The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
- 1949 –Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1965 –The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on August 29?
- 1619 –Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
- 1876 –Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1912 –Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1915 –Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
- 1926 –Helene Ahrweiler, Greek Byzantinologist
- 1930 –Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
- 1931 –Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
- 1934 –Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
- 1940 –Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1990 –Nicole Anderson, American actress
Who died on August 29?
- 1123 –King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
- 1712 –Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
- 1844 –Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
- 1904 –Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
- 1935 –Queen Astrid of the Belgians (b. 1905)
- 1946 –Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
- 1987 –Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2000 –Shelagh Fraser, British actress (b. 1922)
- 2002 –Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
- 2003 –Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
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