August 29

August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.

Events

1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
1526 - Battle of Mohacs - death of the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary.
1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
1786 - Shays' Rebellion breaks out
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
1896 - Chop suey invented in New York City
1898 - Goodyear Tire company founded
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American discovered in California
1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy
1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
1949 - First Soviet atomic bomb is tested
1952 - Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York
1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1966 - Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco
1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
1996 - A Vnukovo Tupolev TU-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen killing 141
1997 - Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz. Angel also rapes and beats Christopher's girlfriend, whom survives. This is the first of a string of murders that Angel commits.
2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by Chechen missile outside of Grozny killing 118 soldiers

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