Editing August 29 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[708]] &ndash; [[Wadōkaichin|Copper coins]] are minted in [[Japan]] for the first time (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: August 10, 708).
* [[870]] &ndash; The city of [[Melite (ancient city)|Melite]] surrenders to an [[Aghlabids|Aghlabid]] army [[Siege of Melite (870)|following a siege]], putting an end to [[Byzantine Malta]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Luttrell | first = Anthony | title = Medieval Malta : studies on Malta before the Knights | publisher = The British School at Rome | location = London | year = 1975 | isbn = 9780904152029 | page=83}}</ref>
*[[1009]] &ndash; [[Mainz Cathedral]] suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its [[inauguration]].
*[[1219]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Fariskur (1219)|Battle of Fariskur]] occurs during the [[Fifth Crusade]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Marvin |first=Laurence W. |title=The Battle of Fariskur (29 August 1219) and the Fifth Crusade: Causes, Course, and Consequences |journal=Journal of Military History |year=2021 |volume=85 |issue=3 |pages=597–618}}</ref>
*[[1261]] &ndash; [[Pope Urban IV]] succeeds [[Pope Alexander IV]], becoming the 182nd pope.
*[[1315]] &ndash; [[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.<ref>{{cite book | last = Bowsky | first = William | title = A medieval Italian commune : Siena under the Nine, 1287–1355 | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780520042568 | page=167}}</ref>
*[[1350]] &ndash; [[Battle of Winchelsea]] (or [[Les Espagnols sur Mer]]): The [[Kingdom of England|English]] [[naval fleet]] under King [[Edward III of England|Edward III]] defeats a [[Crown of Castile|Castilian]] fleet of 40 ships.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robin Neillands|title=The Hundred Years War|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781134507405|year=2002|page=114}}</ref>
*[[1475]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Picquigny]] ends a brief war between  the kingdoms of [[Kingdom of France|France]] and England.
*[[1484]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent VIII]] succeeds [[Pope Sixtus IV]].
*[[1498]] &ndash; [[Vasco da Gama]] decides to depart [[Kozhikode|Calicut]] and return to the [[Kingdom of Portugal]].
*[[1521]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Turks]] capture [[Nándorfehérvár]] (Belgrade).
*[[1526]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mohács]]: The [[Ottoman Turks]] led by [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] defeat and kill the last [[Jagiellonian]] king of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] and [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]].
*[[1541]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Turks]] capture [[Buda]], the capital of the [[Hungarian Kingdom]].
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] issues a nationwide [[sword hunt|sword hunting ordinance]], disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the ''[[samurai]]'' and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralise his own power.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 November 2005 |title=荻野研究室収集文書 |url=https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/collect/b12/b12-87.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724202815/https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/collect/b12/b12-87.html |archive-date=24 July 2022 |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=Waseda University Library}} For date conversion, see {{Cite book |last=Zhang |first=Peiyu |title=三千五百年历日天象 |publisher=Elephant Press |year=1997 |language=zh}}</ref>

===1601–1900=== 
*[[1604]] &ndash; The [[Guru Granth Sahib]] is fully compiled and completed by [[Guru Arjan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jhutti-Johal |first=Jagbir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJb_i97CG70C&q=Guru+Granth+Sahib+september+1604&pg=PT17 |title=Sikhism Today. |date=2011 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4411-7001-9 |page=17 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1728]] &ndash; The city of [[Nuuk]] in [[Greenland]] is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the [[list of governors of Greenland|royal governor]] [[Claus Paarss]].
*[[1741]] &ndash; The [[1741 eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami|eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami]]: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a [[tsunami]] caused by the eruption of [[Oshima (Hokkaido)|Oshima]].<ref name="A Study on the Impacts of the 1741 Tsunami Recorded in the Annals of Joseon Dynasty">{{cite journal |author1=Sang-Shin Byun |author2=Kyeong Ok Kim |title=A study on the effects of the 1741 tsunami recorded in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty |journal=Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers |date=25 February 2021 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=30–37 |doi=10.9765/KSCOE.2021.33.1.30 |s2cid=233955868 |url=http://jkscoe.or.kr/journal/view.php?number=361 |access-date=30 March 2021|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[1756]] &ndash; [[Frederick the Great]] attacks [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]], beginning the [[Seven Years' War]] in Europe.
*[[1758]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Easton]] establishes the first American [[Indian reservation]], at [[Indian Mills, New Jersey]], for the [[Lenape]].
*[[1778]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British and American forces battle indecisively at the [[Battle of Rhode Island]].
*[[1779]] &ndash; American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and [[Iroquois]] forces at the [[Battle of Newtown]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/sullivan/sullbio2.html|title = Sullbio2}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Shays' Rebellion]], an armed uprising of [[Massachusetts]] farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
*[[1807]] &ndash; British troops under Sir [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Arthur Wellesley]] defeat a Danish militia outside [[Copenhagen]] in the [[Battle of Køge]].
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] and [[Empire of Brazil|Brazilian]] diplomats sign the [[Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1825)|Treaty of Rio de Janeiro]], which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the [[War of Independence of Brazil|Brazilian war of independence]]. The treaty will be ratified by the [[King of Portugal]] three months later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tratado de Paz, Amizade e Aliança |url=http://dai-mre.serpro.gov.br/atos-internacionais/bilaterais/1825/b_2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623195152/http://dai-mre.serpro.gov.br/atos-internacionais/bilaterais/1825/b_2 |archive-date=23 June 2017 |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=Sistema Atos Internacionais}}</ref>
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Michael Faraday]] discovers [[electromagnetic induction]].
*[[1842]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Nanking]] signing ends the [[First Opium War]].
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries]] gives Federal forces control of [[Pamlico Sound]].
*[[1869]] &ndash; The [[Mount Washington Cog Railway]] opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing [[rack railway]].
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Emperor Meiji]] orders the [[abolition of the han system]] and the establishment of [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] as local centers of administration. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: July 14, 1871).
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Gottlieb Daimler]] patents the world's first [[motorcycle]] with an [[internal combustion]] engine, the ''[[Daimler Reitwagen|Reitwagen]]''.
*[[1898]] &ndash; The [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]] tire company is founded in [[Akron, Ohio]].

===1901–present===
*[[1903]] &ndash; The {{ship|Russian battleship|Slava||2}}, the last of the five {{sclass|Borodino|battleship|1}}s, is launched.
*[[1907]] &ndash; The [[Quebec Bridge]] collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
*[[1910]] &ndash; The [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910]], also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the [[Korea under Japanese rule|period of Japanese rule]] in Korea.
*[[1911]] &ndash; [[Ishi]], considered the last [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern [[California]].
*  1911 &ndash; The Canadian Naval Service becomes the [[Royal Canadian Navy]].<ref>Gilbert Norman Tucker ''The Naval Service of Canada: Its Official History'' Ottawa, 1952</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; A [[1912 China typhoon|typhoon strikes China]], killing at least 50,000 people.<ref name="NOAA">{{cite web|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|title=The Worst Natural Disasters by Death Toll|year=2009|access-date=January 2, 2012|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/death_toll_natural_disasters.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/death_toll_natural_disasters.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: Start of the [[Battle of St. Quentin (1914)|Battle of St. Quentin]] in which the French [[Fifth Army (France)|Fifth Army]] counter-attacked the invading Germans at [[Saint-Quentin, Aisne]].
*[[1915]] &ndash; US Navy salvage divers raise {{USS|F-4|SS-23|2}}, the first U.S. [[submarine]] sunk in an accident.
*[[1916]] &ndash; The United States passes the [[Jones Law (Philippines)|Philippine Autonomy Act]].
*[[1918]] &ndash; World War I: [[Bapaume]] taken by the [[New Zealand Division]] in the [[Hundred Days Offensive]].
*[[1930]] &ndash; The last 36 remaining inhabitants of [[St Kilda, Scotland|St Kilda]] are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Tallinn]], the capital of [[Estonia]], is occupied by [[Nazi Germany]] following an occupation by the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: [[Occupation of Denmark|German-occupied Denmark]] scuttles most of its [[Royal Danish Navy|navy]]; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II:  [[Slovak National Uprising]] takes place as 60,000 [[Slovaks|Slovak]] troops turn against the [[Nazism|Nazi]]s.
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Northwest Airlines Flight 421]] crashes in [[Fountain City, Wisconsin]], killing all 37 aboard.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Martin 2-0-2 NC93044 Winona, WI |url=https://www.aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480829-0 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=www.aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Soviet atomic bomb project]]: The [[Soviet Union]] tests its first [[atomic bomb]], known as ''[[RDS-1|First Lightning]]'' or ''Joe 1'', at [[Semipalatinsk Test Site|Semipalatinsk]], Kazakhstan.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: [[British Commonwealth Forces Korea]] arrives to bolster the US presence.
*[[1952]] &ndash; American [[experimental music|experimental composer]] [[John Cage]]'s ''[[4’33”]]'' premieres at [[Maverick Concert Hall]], played by [[American people|American]] pianist [[David Tudor]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ross |first=Alex |date=4 October 2010 |title=Searching for Silence: John Cage's art of noise |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/searching-for-silence |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=New York |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |access-date=}}</ref>
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[United States Air Force Academy]] opens in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Air France Flight 343]] crashes on approach to [[Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport|Yoff Airport]] in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.<ref name="asn">{{cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation F-BHBC Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19600829-0 |access-date=4 June 2021 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; The [[Gemini 5|Gemini V]] spacecraft returns to [[Earth]], landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[The Beatles]] perform their last concert before paying fans at [[Candlestick Park]] in [[San Francisco]].
*  1966 &ndash; Leading Egyptian thinker [[Sayyid Qutb]] is executed for plotting the assassination of President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]].
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Chicano Moratorium]] against the [[Vietnam War]], [[East Los Angeles, California]]. Police riot kills three people, including journalist [[Rubén Salazar]].
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Tacnazo|El Tacnazo]]:  [[Francisco Morales Bermúdez]], Peruvian [[President of the Council of Ministers of Peru|Prime Minister]] carries out a [[Tacnazo|coup d'état]] in the city of [[Tacna]], forcing the sitting [[President of Peru]], [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]], to resign and assuming his place as the new [[President of Peru|President]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Osorio Soto |first=Gary M. |date=August 2021 |title=El Tacnazo: Crónica De Una Llamada Que Cambió La Historia |url=https://www.academia.edu/52576698 |journal=Revista de la Asociación de Estudios Históricos de Tacna |volume=1 |issue=3 |page=9 |via=Academia}}</ref>
*[[1982]] &ndash;  [[Meitnerium]], a synthetic [[chemical element]] with the [[atomic number]] 109, is first synthesized at the [[Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung]] in [[Darmstadt]], Germany.
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea#Odaeyang mass suicide|Odaeyang mass suicide]]: Thirty-three individuals linked to a [[Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea|religious cult]] are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in [[Yongin]], South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a [[murder-suicide]] pact.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Renfrew |first=Barry |date=29 August 1987 |title=33 Bodies Found In Attic After Apparent Murder-Suicide Pact |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/article/ad93eedacb89524018ecbec4a1cf9f5c |url-status=live |access-date=29 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516181223/https://apnews.com/article/ad93eedacb89524018ecbec4a1cf9f5c |archive-date=16 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union]] suspends all activities of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]].
*  1991 &ndash; [[Libero Grassi]], an Italian businessman from [[Palermo]], is killed by the [[Sicilian Mafia]] after taking a solitary stand against their [[extortion]] demands.
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801]], a [[Tupolev Tu-154]], crashes into a mountain on the [[Arctic]] island of [[Spitsbergen]], killing all 141 aboard.
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Netflix]] is launched as an internet [[DVD]] rental service.
*  1997 &ndash; At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria [[Armed Islamic Group|GIA]] in the [[Rais massacre]], [[Algeria]].
*[[1998]] &ndash; Eighty people are killed when [[Cubana de Aviación Flight 389]] crashes during a [[rejected takeoff]] from the [[Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport]] in [[Quito]], Ecuador.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-154M CU-T1264 Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980829-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-27|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050307092250/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19980829-0 |archive-date=2005-03-07 }}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; Four people are killed when [[Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261]] crashes into the [[N-340 road (Spain)|N-340 highway]] near [[Málaga Airport]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident CASA CN-235-200 EC-FBC Málaga Airport (AGP) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010829-0 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Sayed]] [[Ayatollah]] [[Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]], the [[Shia Muslim]] leader in [[Iraq]], is [[assassination|assassin]]ated in a [[Imam Ali mosque bombing|terrorist bombing]], along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a [[mosque]] in [[Najaf]].
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Hurricane Katrina]] devastates much of the [[U.S. Gulf Coast]] from [[Louisiana]] to the [[Florida Panhandle]], [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125&nbsp;billion in damage]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the [[Xiaojiawan coal mine disaster|Xiaojiawan coal mine]], located at [[Panzhihua|Panzhihua, Sichuan Province]].
* 2012 &ndash; The [[2012 Summer Paralympics|XIV Paralympic Games]] open in [[London]], England, United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=London 2012 |url=https://www.paralympic.org/london-2012 |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=International Paralympic Committee}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[2020 Women's FA Community Shield]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/aug/29/chelsea-manchester-city-womens-fa-community-shield-match-report-290820 |title= Millie Bright's stunner helps Chelsea beat Man City in women's Community Shield |date= 29 August 2020 |website= thefa.com |publisher= The Football Association |access-date= 16 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Sanders |first= Emma |date= 29 August 2020 |title= Chelsea 2-0 Man City in Women's Community Shield: Millie Bright stunner helps Blues win |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53894486 |work= BBC Sport |access-date= 16 September 2024}} </ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]: Ukraine begins its [[2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive|southern counteroffensive]] in the [[Kherson Oblast]], eventually culminating in the [[Liberation of Kherson|liberation]] of the city of [[Kherson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Kherson: Ukraine claims new push in Russian-held region|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62712299|author1=Sands, Leo|author2=Lukov, Yaroslav|website=BBC.com|publisher=BBC|date=August 30, 2022|access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ukrainian Forces Enter Kherson, a Strategic Prize, in a Blow to Putin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-russia.html|author1=Kramer, Andrew E.|author2=Marc Santora|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 11, 2022|access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>