# What happened on August 29 in history?

**Date:** August 29  
**Events recorded:** 71  
**Years spanned:** 708 – 2022  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/august/29/

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## Featured Event

**2022** — Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war)

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## Events on this date

- **708** — Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wad%C5%8Dkaichin))
- **870** — The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melite_(ancient_city)))
- **1009** — Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz_Cathedral))
- **1219** — The Battle of Fariskur occurs during the Fifth Crusade. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fariskur_(1219)))
- **1261** — Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV, becoming the 182nd pope. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_IV))
- **1315** — Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montecatini))
- **1350** — Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Winchelsea))
- **1475** — Hundred Years' War: The Treaty of Picquigny formally ends the war between the kingdoms of France and England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War))
- **1484** — Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VIII))
- **1498** — Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to the Kingdom of Portugal. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama))
- **1521** — The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turks))
- **1526** — Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moh%C3%A1cs))
- **1541** — The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turks))
- **1588** — Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ordinance, disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the samurai and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralise his own power. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi))
- **1604** — The Guru Granth Sahib is fully compiled and completed by Guru Arjan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib))
- **1728** — The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuuk))
- **1741** — The eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1741_eruption_of_Oshima%E2%80%93%C5%8Cshima_and_the_Kampo_tsunami))
- **1756** — Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_the_Great))
- **1758** — The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Easton))
- **1778** — American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1779** — American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee))
- **1786** — Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays's_Rebellion))
- **1807** — British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley%2C_1st_Duke_of_Wellington))
- **1825** — Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian War of Independence. The treaty will be ratified by the King of Portugal three months later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal))
- **1831** — Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday))
- **1842** — Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nanking))
- **1861** — American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1869** — The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway))
- **1871** — Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji))
- **1885** — Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler))
- **1898** — The Goodyear tire company is founded in Akron, Ohio. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Tire_and_Rubber_Company))
- **1903** — The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Slava))
- **1907** — The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge))
- **1910** — The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_Treaty_of_1910))
- **1911** — Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi))
- **1911** — The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Navy))
- **1912** — A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_China_typhoon))
- **1914** — World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1915** — US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_F-4))
- **1916** — The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Law_(Philippines)))
- **1918** — World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bapaume))
- **1930** — The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda%2C_Scotland))
- **1941** — World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1943** — World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_in_World_War_II))
- **1944** — World War II:  Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising))
- **1948** — Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Flight_421))
- **1949** — Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project))
- **1950** — Korean War: British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War))
- **1952** — American experimental composer John Cage's 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_music))
- **1958** — United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Academy))
- **1960** — Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to Yoff Airport in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_343))
- **1965** — The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_5))
- **1966** — The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles))
- **1966** — Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb))
- **1970** — Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano_Moratorium))
- **1975** — El Tacnazo:  Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian Prime Minister carries out a coup d'état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacnazo))
- **1982** — Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitnerium))
- **1987** — Odaeyang mass suicide: Thirty-three individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Baptist_Church_of_Korea))
- **1991** — Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union))
- **1991** — Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libero_Grassi))
- **1996** — Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnukovo_Airlines_Flight_2801))
- **1997** — Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix))
- **1997** — At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Islamic_Group_of_Algeria))
- **1998** — Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_389))
- **2001** — Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binter_Mediterr%C3%A1neo_Flight_8261))
- **2003** — Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid))
- **2005** — Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,392 people and causing $125 billion in damage. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina))
- **2012** — At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaojiawan_coal_mine_disaster))
- **2012** — The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Paralympics))
- **2020** — 2020 Women's FA Community Shield. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Women's_FA_Community_Shield))
- **2022** — Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war))

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## Notable births on August 29

- **2008** — **Rio Ngumoha** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Ngumoha))
- **1996** — **Daryll Neita** — British sprinter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryll_Neita))
- **1994** — **Ysaline Bonaventure** — Belgian tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysaline_Bonaventure))
- **1993** — **Lucas Cruikshank** — American YouTuber and actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Cruikshank))
- **1993** — **Liam Payne** — English singer-songwriter from One Direction (died 2024) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Payne))
- **1992** — **Noah Syndergaard** — American baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Syndergaard))
- **1991** — **Néstor Araujo** — Mexican footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9stor_Araujo))
- **1991** — **Deshaun Thomas** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshaun_Thomas))
- **1990** — **Jakub Kosecki** — Polish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Kosecki))
- **1990** — **Chris Taylor** — American baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Taylor_(baseball)))

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## Notable deaths on August 29

- **2024** — **Johnny Gaudreau** — American ice hockey player (born 1993) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gaudreau))
- **2023** — **Mike Enriquez** — Filipino broadcaster (born 1951) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Enriquez))
- **2021** — **Ed Asner** — American actor (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Asner))
- **2021** — **Lee "Scratch" Perry** — Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_%22Scratch%22_Perry))
- **2021** — **Jacques Rogge** — Belgian orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1942) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Rogge))
- **2018** — **James Mirrlees** — Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mirrlees))
- **2018** — **Paul Taylor** — American choreographer (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Taylor_(choreographer)))
- **2016** — **Gene Wilder** — American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder))
- **2014** — **Octavio Brunetti** — Argentine pianist and composer (born 1975) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Brunetti))
- **2014** — **Björn Waldegård** — Swedish race car driver (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Waldeg%C3%A5rd))

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