Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 29
This is a list of selected August 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1756 – As neighboring countries began conspiring against him, Frederick II of Prussia launched a preemptive invasion of Saxony, starting the Seven Years' War. | {{POV}} |
| 1786 – Disgruntled farmers in Western Massachusetts, US, angered by high tax burdens and disenfranchisement, started Shays' Rebellion. | need to verify dates, see Talk:Shays' Rebellion#Dates |
| 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. | Need to verify date |
| 1882 – Australia defeated England by seven runs in a Test match at the Oval in London, beginning one of international cricket's most celebrated sports rivalries known as the Ashes. | refimprove sections |
| 1907 – The Quebec Bridge, currently the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 m (1800 ft) connecting Quebec City and Lévis, Quebec, Canada, across the St. Lawrence River, collapsed during construction, killing 75 workers. | Tagged with {{citations missing}} |
| 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. | Tagged with {{Nofootnotes}} |
| 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1526 – Louis II, 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.
- 1842 – The Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty ending the First Opium War, was signed, forcing the Chinese Qing Dynasty to give foreign trading privileges, war reparations, control of Hong Kong Island, and other concessions to the British.
- 1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, was launched.
- 1991 – Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
- 2005 – Storm surges of Hurricane Katrina caused multiple breaches in levees around New Orleans, flooding about 80 percent of the city and surrounding areas for weeks.
- 2007 – Six nuclear warheads were alleged to have been 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.
August 29: Feast day for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Gregorian calendar); National Heroes' Day in the Philippines (2011)
- 1533 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa (pictured) in Cajamarca.
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
- 1930 – The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.
- 1984 – Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and single largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
- 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 aboard.