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This day in history: 29 August

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397 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 29 August.
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2022: Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Adelphus of Metz

Christian feast day: August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Christian feast day: Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice

Christian feast day: Blessed Teresa Bracco

Christian feast day: Bronislava of Poland

Christian feast day: Eadwold of Cerne

Christian feast day: Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Jeanne Jugan

Christian feast day: John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Sabina

Christian feast day: Vitalis, Sator and Repositus

Events

2022Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson.

20202020 Women's FA Community Shield.

2012At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.

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

2005Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,392 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

2003Sayed Ayatollah 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.

2001Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.

1998Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.

1997At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

1997Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.

1996Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

1991Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.

1991Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

1987Odaeyang mass suicide: Thirty-three individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder–suicide pact.

1982Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

1975El Tacnazo: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian Prime Minister carries out a 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.

1970Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

1966Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1966The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

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

1960Air France Flight 343 crashes on approach to Yoff Airport in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.

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

1952American experimental composer John Cage's 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor.

1950Korean War: British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence.

1949Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1948Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard.

1944World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

1943World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

1941World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.

1930The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

1918World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.

1916The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.

1915US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

1914World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.

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

1911Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

1911The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

1910The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.

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

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

Born on this day

2008Rio Ngumoha, English footballer

1996Daryll Neita, British sprinter

1994Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player

1993Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter from One Direction (died 2024)

1993Lucas Cruikshank, American YouTuber and actor

1992Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player

1991Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player

1991Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer

1990Chris Taylor, American baseball player

1990Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer

1990Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer

1989Charlotte Ritchie, English actress

1987Tony Kane, Northern Irish footballer

1986Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator

1986Lea Michele, American actress and singer

1983Anthony Recker, American baseball player

1983Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player

1983Jennifer Landon, American actress

1982Carlos Delfino, Argentine–Italian basketball player

1982Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (died 2013)

1982Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer

1982Yakhouba Diawara, French basketball player

1981Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist

1981Martin Erat, Czech ice hockey player

1980Chris Simms, American football player

1980David West, American basketball player

1979Kristjan Rahnu, Estonian decathlete

1979Ryan Shealy, American baseball player

1979Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist

1978Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer

1978Volkan Arslan, German-Turkish footballer

1977Aaron Rowand, American baseball player and sportscaster

1977Cayetano, Greek DJ and producer

1977Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian and radio host

1977Devean George, American basketball player

1977John Hensley, American actor

1977John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player

1977Roy Oswalt, American baseball player

1976Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player

1976Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager

Died on this day

2024Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player (born 1993)

2023Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcaster (born 1951)

2021Ed Asner, American actor (born 1929)

2021Jacques Rogge, Belgian orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1942)

2021Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)

2018James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

2018Paul Taylor, American choreographer (born 1930)

2016Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933)

2014Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (born 1943)

2014Octavio Brunetti, Argentine pianist and composer (born 1975)

2013Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (born 1931)

2013Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (born 1934)

2013Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (born 1931)

2012Anne McKnight, American soprano (born 1924)

2012Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)

2012Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English historian and author (born 1953)

2012Ruth Goldbloom, Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (born 1923)

2012Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach (born 1969)

2012Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (born 1932)

2011Honeyboy Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1915)

2011Junpei Takiguchi, Japanese voice actor (born 1931)

2008Geoffrey Perkins, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1953)

2008Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist and theorist (born 1939)

2007Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (born 1920)

2007James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman (born 1914)

2007Pierre Messmer, French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (born 1916)

2007Richard Jewell, American police officer (born 1962)

2004Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (born 1942)

2003Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi politician (born 1939)

2003Patrick Procktor, English painter and academic (born 1936)

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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

Lao Tzu

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