Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 29

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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.

• Born/died: Abu Taghlib |d|979| Eystein I of Norway |d|1123| Charles of Taranto |d|1315| Edmond Hoyle |d|1769| Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville |b|1785| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |b|1809| Juan Bautista Alberdi |b|1810| Henry Bergh |b|1813| Louis Adrian |b|1859| Vivien Thomas |b|1910| Orval Grove |b|1919| Otis Boykin |b|1920| John McCain |b|1936| Michael Jackson |b|1958| Lale Andersen |d|1972| Kazi Nazrul Islam |d|1976| Lucas Cruikshank |b|1993| Mike Enriquez |d|2023|

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.