History Events on August 29

The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

#The_Beatles

British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.

#Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington

Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.

#Frederick_the_Great

The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

#Jones_Law_(Philippines)

The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

#St_Kilda,_Scotland

Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.

#Libero_Grassi

World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.

#Bapaume

Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.

#Mainz_Cathedral

The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.

#Nuuk

Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

#Battle_of_Mohács

Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

#Sayyid_Qutb

Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.

#Pope_Innocent_VIII

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

#Michael_Faraday

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.

#Japan-Korea_Treaty_of_1910

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.

#World_War_I

The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

#Royal_Canadian_Navy

The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.

#Treaty_of_Picquigny

The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.

#Treaty_of_Easton

The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.

#Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway

World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

#Slovak_National_Uprising

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

#Russian_battleship_Slava

Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

#Treaty_of_Nanking

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).

#Emperor_Meiji

The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

#Quebec_Bridge

Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

#Wad?kaichin

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

#Hurricane_Katrina

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

#Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union

The Goodyear tire company is founded.

#Goodyear_Tire_and_Rubber_Company

Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

#Korean_War

Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

#Gottlieb_Daimler

American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.

#American_Civil_War

Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

#Shays'_Rebellion

The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

#Chemical_element

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

#United_States_Air_Force_Academy

World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

#World_War_II

Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

#Ishi

American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.

#Pope_Urban_IV

Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.

#Vasco_da_Gama

Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

#Battle_of_Winchelsea

At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.

Ayatollah Sayed 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.

At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).

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.