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