What is August 29? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge

August 29

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

Events

1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first
1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England
1484 - Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope
1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade
1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia
1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom
1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City
1898 - Goodyear tire company is founded.

1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California
1930 - the last 36 remaining inhabitants of Saint Kilda left forever
1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government
1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
1949 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
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
1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
1996 - 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 killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria
1997 - Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, the first of nine victims.

2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf.
2004 - End of the 2004 Summer Olympics

Eastern Orthodox Christianity commemorates the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day

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