SomeFacts | August 29

On this day - August 29

708 — Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time ...

870 — The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a ...

1009 — Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which ...

1219 — The Battle of Fariskur occurs during the Fifth Crusade.

1261 — Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV, becoming the 182nd ...

1315 — Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, ...

1350 — Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English ...

1475 — The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms ...

1484 — Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.

1498 — Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to the ...

1521 — The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).

1526 — Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the ...

1541 — The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian ...

1588 — Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ...

1604 — The Guru Granth Sahib is fully compiled and completed by Guru ...

1728 — The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of ...

1741 — The eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least ...

1756 — Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven ...

1758 — The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian ...

1778 — American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat ...

1786 — Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts ...

1807 — British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish ...

1825 — Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de ...

1831 — Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

1842 — Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

1861 — American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries ...

1869 — The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the ...

1871 — Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the ...

1885 — Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle ...

1898 — The Goodyear tire company is founded in Akron, Ohio.

1903 — The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is ...

1907 — The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 ...

1910 — The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea ...

1911 — The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

1911 — Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with ...

1912 — A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.

1914 — World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the ...

1915 — US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine ...

1916 — The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

1918 — World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the ...

1930 — The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily ...

1941 — World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by ...

1943 — World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its ...

1944 — World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 ...

1948 — Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, ...

1949 — Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first ...

1950 — Korean War: British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to ...

1952 — American experimental composer John Cage's 4’33” ...

1958 — United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, ...

1960 — Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to Yoff Airport in ...

1965 — The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the ...

1966 — Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting ...

1966 — The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at ...

1970 — Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, ...

1975 — El Tacnazo: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian Prime ...

1982 — Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic ...

1987 — Odaeyang mass suicide: Thirty-three individuals linked to a ...

1991 — Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed ...

1991 — Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of ...

1996 — Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a ...

1997 — At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of ...

1997 — Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.

1998 — Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 ...

2001 — Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 ...

2003 — Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim ...

2005 — Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from ...

2012 — The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United ...

2012 — At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a ...

2020 — 2020 Women's FA Community Shield.

2022 — Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its southern ...