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, 28,748,160 minutes 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.
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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 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
- 1786 –Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1835 –The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1861 –American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
- 1869 –The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
- 1903 –The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Sclass Borodinos, is launched.
- 1915 –US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1930 –The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1944 –Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1965 –The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
- 1970 –Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
Who were born on August 29?
- 1628 –John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
- 1920 –Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1928 –Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1934 –Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
- 1969 –Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1971 –Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1975 –Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
- 1981 –Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
- 1986 –Lea Michele, American actress and singer
- 1992 –Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Who died on August 29?
- 1533 –Atahualpa, Inca emperor (b. 1497)
- 1749 –Matthias Bel, Hungarian polymath (b. 1684)
- 1780 –Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
- 1989 –Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
- 1990 –Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
- 2003 –Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
- 2003 –Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
- 2007 –Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
- 2008 –Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
- 2008 –Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)
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