29th August

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The August 29 is the 241st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 242nd in leap years ). This leaves 124 days until the end of the year.

Historic anniversaries
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events

Politics and world events

1637: Fort São Jorge da Mina (view from 1668)
1914: the German colonies in the Pacific

business

1751: the large barrel in Heidelberg
1857: La Porteña locomotive

science and technology
1965: Gemini 5 after the splashdown

Culture
2009: Kunstquartier Hagen

society

religion

Disasters

1782: Medallion with the sinking of the Royal George
  • 1741: A volcanic eruption on the island of Oshima-Ōshima is accompanied by a tsunami in the Sea of ​​Japan that kills at least 1,600 people.
  • 1782: The British liner Royal George capsizes and sinks while at anchor in the Solent . Between 800 and 950 people drown, including Vice Admiral Richard Kempenfelt and large numbers of children and women. To this day, the sinking is the worst peacetime shipwreck in the history of the Royal Navy .
  • 1907: The Québec Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River collapses while it is being built. 75 construction workers are killed.
  • 1996: Spitzbergen , Norway: A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain. All 141 people on board die.
  • 2005: Hurricane Katrina hits the US Gulf Coast, a storm surge floods New Orleans and floods large parts of the US states Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. More than 1000 people are killed, the financial damage is estimated at over 125 billion euros.

  • Katrina on August 29, 2005

  • Fishing trawlers hoisted on land by Katrina

  • Flooded residential areas of New Orleans

  • A broken bridge

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

1916: Waterfall in Mount Field National Park

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Johann Neefe (* 1499)

  • Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin (* 1540)

  • Jean-Baptiste Colbert (* 1619)

  • John Locke (* 1632)

18th century

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arndt von Kleist (* 1724)

  • Maria Anna of Saxony (* 1728)

  • Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (* 1755)

  • Jan Śniadecki (* 1756)

  • Philippine Rose Duchesne (* 1769)

  • Aimé Bonpland (* 1773)

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (* 1780)

  • Josef von Teng (* 1786)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Michelangelo Grigoletti (* 1801)

  • Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (* 1808)

  • Otto Spamer (* 1820)

  • Wilhelm Rimpau (* 1842)

1851-1900

  • Paul Friedlaender (* 1857)

  • Maurice Maeterlinck (* 1862)

  • Hedwig Lachmann (* 1865)

  • Hermann Löns (* 1866)

  • Arnošt Bart (* 1870)

  • Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich (* 1874)

  • Mikawa Gunichi (* 1888)

  • Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov (* 1894)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Ingrid Bergman (* 1915)

  • Charlie Parker (* 1920)

  • Richard Attenborough (* 1923)

  • Dinah Washington (* 1924)

1926-1950

  • John McCain (born 1936)

  • Elliott Gould (born 1938)

  • Rotraud Schindler (* 1940)

  • James Hunt (born 1947)

1951-1975

  • Michael Jackson (born 1958)

  • Rebecca De Mornay (* 1959)

  • Délia Fischer (* 1964)

  • Thomas Tuchel (* 1973)

1976-2000

  • John Hensley (born 1977)

  • Émilie Dequenne (* 1981)

  • Isabella Jantz (* 1982)

  • Lea Michele (* 1986)

Died

Before the 16th century

  • Albrecht III. of Habsburg († 1395)

16th to 18th century

  • Ulrich von Hutten († 1523)

  • Ludwig II of Bohemia and Hungary († 1526)

  • Luise Charlotte of Brandenburg († 1676)

  • Charlotte of Hessen-Homburg († 1738)

19th century

  • Gustav Harkort († 1865)

  • Hermann Hankel († 1873)

  • Brigham Young († 1877)

  • Jeanne Jugan († 1879)

20th century

1901-1950

  • Asaf Jah VI. († 1911)

  • Julius von Payer († 1915)

  • Astrid of Sweden († 1935)

  • Béla Kun († 1938)

1951-2000

  • Vicki Baum († 1960)

  • Lale Andersen († 1972)

  • János Gyarmati († 1974)

  • Éamon de Valera († 1975)

  • Ingrid Bergman († 1982)

  • Nahum Goldmann († 1982)

  • Evelyn Ankers († 1985)

  • Lee Marvin († 1987)

21st century

  • Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim († 2003)

  • David Honeyboy Edwards († 2011)

  • Gene Wilder († 2016)

  • Uli Stein († 2020)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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