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
- 1475 –The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
- 1831 –Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1869 –The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack 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).
- 1911 –Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 1915 –US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1916 –The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
- 1918 –Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- 1949 –Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1997 –At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
Who were born on August 29?
- 1628 –John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
- 1694 –Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
- 1780 –Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1805 –Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
- 1844 –Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
- 1923 –Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
- 1926 –María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
- 1959 –Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
- 1959 –Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician
- 1977 –Jo Weil, German actor
Who died on August 29?
- 1093 –Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1526 –Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (killed in the Battle of Mohács) (b. c. 1475)
- 1951 –Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
- 1972 –Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
- 1990 –Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
- 1992 –Teddy Turner, English comedian (b. 1917)
- 2001 –Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
- 2007 –Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
- 2007 –Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
- 2008 –Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)
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