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Michael Faraday
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United States Air Force Academy graduation day
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Frederick II of Prussia
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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Michael Faraday
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Flooded areas of New Orleans
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Ishi
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Daniel Shays
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Illustration of Shays' Rebellion
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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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| Onam in Kerala, India | lots of CN tags (7) esp in one section |
| 1526 – Ottoman–Hungarian Wars: [[Louis II of Hungary|Template:Nowrap]], the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia, died after his army was defeated by Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent at the Battle of Mohács. | refimprove |
| 1756 – As neighboring countries began conspiring against him, [[Frederick the Great|Template:Nowrap of Prussia]] launched a preemptive invasion of Saxony, starting the Seven Years' War. | refimprove sections |
| 1882 – Australia defeated England by seven runs in a Test match at the Oval in London, beginning the Ashes, one of international cricket's most celebrated rivalries. | refimprove section |
| 1907 – Canada's Quebec Bridge, currently the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 m (1800 ft) connecting Quebec City and Lévis across the Saint Lawrence River, collapsed during construction, killing 75 workers. | unreferenced sections |
| 1930 – The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern. | Yellow "lead too long" banner |
| 1944 – World War II: Slovak troops turned against the pro-Nazi government of Jozef Tiso and the German Wehrmacht, starting the two-month long Slovak National Uprising. | needs more footnotes |
| 1958 – The United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado. | refimprove section, unreferenced sections |
| 2005 – Storm surges of Hurricane Katrina caused multiple breaches in levees around New Orleans, flooding about 80% of the city and surrounding areas for weeks. | refimprove section |
| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |b|1780| | Birthday not cited |
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- 1350 – Hundred Years' War: Led by King Edward III, a fleet of 50 English ships captured at least 14 Castilian vessels and sank several more at the Battle of Winchelsea.
- 1786 – Angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement, farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays began an armed uprising against the U.S. federal government.
- 1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.
- 1842 – Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.
- 1903 – Slava, the last of five Borodino-class battleships, was launched by the Imperial Russian Navy.
- 1914 – Due to price increases on macaroni products, rioting occurred in the Little Italy area of Providence, Rhode Island.
- 1916 – Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
- 1949 – The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton [[RDS-1|Template:Nowrap]].
- 1984 – Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
- 1991 – Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
- 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.
- 2007 – Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
- 2016 – Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.
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August 29: Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (Catholicism, Anglicanism); Qixi Festival in China (2025) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1475 – France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).
- 1911 – The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.
- 1959 – Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
- 1960 – Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.