August 29

Events

• 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time.
• 870 - The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta.
• 1009 - Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.
• 1261 - Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
• 1315 - Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
• 1350 - Battle of Winchelsea : The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
• 1475 - The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
• 1484 - Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
• 1498 - Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
• 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár.
• 1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
• 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
• 1728 - The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
• 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.
• 1758 - The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
• 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
• 1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• 1807 - British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
• 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
• 1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.
• 1869 - The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• 1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration..
• 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• 1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• 1903 - The, the last of the five s, is launched.
• 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
• 1910 - The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
• 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
• 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1914 - World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
• 1915 - US Navy salvage divers raise, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
• 1916 - The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
• 1918 - World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
• 1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
• 1941 - World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
• 1943 - World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
• 1944 - World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
• 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• 1950 - Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
• 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 1965 - The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1966 - The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
• 1966 - Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• 1970 - Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
• 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
• 1991 - Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
• 1991 - Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
• 1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
• 1997 - Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
• 1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
• 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed 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.
• 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
• 2012 - At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.

  Births

• 979 - Otto, French nobleman
• 1321 - John of Artois, French nobleman
• 1347 - John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier
• 1434 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet
• 1514 - García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral
• 1534 - Nicholas Pieck, Dutch Franciscan friar and martyr
• 1597 - Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War
• 1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances
• 1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1632 - John Locke, English physician and philosopher
• 1724 - Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author
• 1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1728 - Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, electress of Bavaria
• 1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer
• 1756 - Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician
• 1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer
• 1777 - Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology
• 1780 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator
• 1792 - Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author
• 1805 - Frederick Denison Maurice, English priest, theologian, and author
• 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author
• 1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat
• 1811 - Henry Bergh, American activist, founded the ASPCA
• 1842 - Alfred Shaw, English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire
• 1843 - David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York
• 1844 - Edward Carpenter, English anthologist and poet
• 1857 - Sandford Schultz, English cricketer
• 1861 - Byron G. Harlan, American singer
• 1862 - Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1871 - Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France
• 1875 - Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator
• 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics
• 1876 - Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
• 1887 - Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat
• 1888 - Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician
• 1890 - Peder Furubotn, Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader
• 1891 - Marquis James, American journalist and author
• 1898 - Preston Sturges, American director and producer
• 1901 - Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
• 1904 - Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player
• 1905 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist
• 1910 - Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic
• 1911 - John Charnley, British orthopedic surgeon
• 1912 - Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean runner
• 1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor
• 1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer
• 1913 - Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer
• 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
• 1915 - Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist and author
• 1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1916 - George Montgomery, American actor, stuntman, director, and producer
• 1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress
• 1920 - Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer
• 1920 - Herb Simpson, American baseball player
• 1920 - Otis Boykin, American inventor and engineer
• 1922 - Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic
• 1922 - John Edward Williams, American author and educator
• 1922 - Arthur Anderson, American actor
• 1923 - Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer
• 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist
• 1926 - Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
• 1926 - Donn Fendler, American author and speaker
• 1926 - Betty Lynn, American actress
• 1927 - Jimmy C. Newman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1928 - Charles Gray, English actor
• 1928 - Herbert Meier, Swiss author and translator
• 1929 - Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic
• 1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman
• 1930 - Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach
• 1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist
• 1931 - Lise Payette, Canadian journalist and politician
• 1933 - Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator
• 1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
• 1934 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director
• 1935 - Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author
• 1935 - William Friedkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1935 - László Garai, Hungarian psychologist and scholar
• 1936 - John McCain, American captain and politician
• 1937 - James Florio, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey
• 1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor and producer
• 1938 - Angela Huth, English journalist and author
• 1938 - Christian Müller, German footballer and manager
• 1938 - Robert Rubin, American lawyer and politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1939 - Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter
• 1939 - Joel Schumacher, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1940 - James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary
• 1940 - Gary Gabelich, American race car driver
• 1941 - Robin Leach, English journalist and television host
• 1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer
• 1942 - Gottfried John, German actor
• 1943 - Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist
• 1943 - Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer
• 1943 - Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 - Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter
• 1946 - Bob Beamon, American long jumper
• 1946 - Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic
• 1946 - Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus
• 1946 - Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
• 1947 - Temple Grandin, American ethologist, academic, and author
• 1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver and sportscaster
• 1948 - Robert S. Langer, American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and academic
• 1949 - Stan Hansen, American wrestler and actor
• 1950 - Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
• 1950 - Frank Henenlotter, American director and screenwriter
• 1950 - Dave Reichert, American soldier and politician
• 1951 - Geoff Whitehorn, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 - Karen Hesse, American author and poet
• 1952 - Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 - Don Schlitz, American Hall of Fame country music songwriter
• 1953 - David Boaz, American businessman and author
• 1953 - Richard Harding, English rugby player
• 1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
• 1954 - Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American journalist, author, and academic
• 1955 - Diamanda Galás, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1955 - Jack Lew, American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
• 1956 - Mark Morris, American dancer and choreographer
• 1956 - Eddie Murray, American football player
• 1956 - Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1956 - Steve Yarbrough, American novelist and short story writer
• 1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey and sportscaster
• 1957 - Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish singer-songwriter, film music composer
• 1958 - Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor
• 1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959 - Ramón Díaz, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1959 - Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
• 1959 - Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1959 - Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 - Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
• 1959 - Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician
• 1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
• 1960 - Todd English, American chef and author
• 1960 - Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
• 1961 - Rodney McCray, American basketball player
• 1962 - Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster
• 1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese game designer and composer
• 1962 - Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, producer and author
• 1962 - Simon Thurley, English historian and academic
• 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1964 - Perri "Pebbles" Reid, American dance-pop and urban contemporary singer-songwriter
• 1964 - Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
• 1965 - Will Perdue, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1966 - Jörn Großkopf, German footballer and manager
• 1967 - Neil Gorsuch, American judge
• 1967 - Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 - Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
• 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1969 - Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 - Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host
• 1971 - Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
• 1971 - Alex Griffin, English bass player
• 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1972 - Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1972 - Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor
• 1973 - Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist
• 1973 - Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
• 1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese keyboard player and composer
• 1975 - Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
• 1976 - Phil Harvey, English businessman
• 1976 - Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
• 1976 - Georgios Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
• 1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, Argentine-American soccer player and manager
• 1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer and manager
• 1977 - Cayetano, Greek DJ and producer
• 1977 - Devean George, American basketball player
• 1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
• 1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
• 1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian and radio host
• 1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1978 - Volkan Arslan, German-Turkish footballer
• 1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
• 1979 - Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
• 1979 - Kristjan Rahnu, Estonian decathlete
• 1979 - Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
• 1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
• 1980 - David West, American basketball player
• 1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
• 1981 - Jay Ryan, New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
• 1982 - Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host
• 1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
• 1982 - Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 - Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1986 - Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator
• 1986 - Lea Michele, American actress and singer
• 1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
• 1990 - Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer
• 1990 - Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
• 1991 - Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
• 1991 - Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
• 1992 - Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1992 - Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
• 1993 - Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter

  Deaths

• 886 - Basil I, Byzantine emperor
• 939 - Wang Jipeng, Chinese emperor of Min
• 939 - Li Chunyan, Chinese empress
• 956 - Fu the Elder, Chinese empress
• 979 - Abu Taghlib, Hamdanid emir
• 1021 - Minamoto no Yorimitsu, Japanese nobleman
• 1046 - Gerard of Csanád Venetian monk and Hungarian bishop
• 1093 - Hugh I, duke of Burgundy
• 1123 - Eystein I, king of Norway
• 1135 - Al-Mustarshid, Abbasid caliph
• 1159 - Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine empress
• 1298 - Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar, English princess
• 1315 - Peter Tempesta, Italian nobleman
• 1315 - Charles of Taranto, Italian nobleman
• 1395 - Albert III, duke of Austria
• 1442 - John V, duke of Brittany
• 1499 - Alesso Baldovinetti, Florentine painter
• 1523 - Ulrich von Hutten, Lutheran reformer
• 1526 - Louis II, king of Hungary and Croatia
• 1526 - Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier
• 1533 - Atahualpa, Inca emperor
• 1542 - Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese commander
• 1604 - Hamida Banu Begum, Mughal empress
• 1657 - John Lilburne, English activist
• 1712 - Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician
• 1749 - Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath
• 1769 - Edmond Hoyle, English author and educator
• 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon
• 1799 - Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers
• 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist
• 1866 - Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun
• 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel
• 1891 - Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle
• 1892 - William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author
• 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman sultan
• 1911 - Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad
• 1917 - George Huntington Hartford, American businessman
• 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author
• 1931 - David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch
• 1944 - Attik, Greek pianist and composer
• 1946 - Adolphus Busch III, American businessman
• 1946 - John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic
• 1951 - Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant
• 1952 - Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer
• 1958 - Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator
• 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet
• 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American general
• 1971 - Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer
• 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter
• 1975 - Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland
• 1977 - Jean Hagen, American actress
• 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver
• 1979 - Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator
• 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author
• 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
• 1982 - Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor
• 1985 - Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress
• 1987 - Archie Campbell, American actor and screenwriter
• 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor
• 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer and painter
• 1990 - Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author
• 1991 - Libero Grassi, Italian businessman
• 1992 - Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist
• 1995 - Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2000 - Shelagh Fraser, English actress
• 2000 - Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager
• 2000 - Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic
• 2001 - Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter & television personality
• 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 2002 - Lance Macklin, English race car driver
• 2003 - Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi politician
• 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English painter and academic
• 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor
• 2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman
• 2007 - Richard Jewell, American police officer
• 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France
• 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea
• 2008 - Geoffrey Perkins, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 2008 - Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist and theorist
• 2011 - Honeyboy Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2011 - Junpei Takiguchi, Japanese voice actor
• 2012 - Ruth Goldbloom, Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21
• 2012 - Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English historian and author
• 2012 - Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic
• 2012 - Anne McKnight, American soprano
• 2012 - Les Moss, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 2012 - Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball player and coach
• 2013 - Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician
• 2013 - Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal
• 2013 - Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society
• 2014 - Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer
• 2014 - Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver
• 2016 - Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author
• 2018 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2018 - Paul Taylor, American choreographer

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Adelphus of Metz
• *Beheading of St. John the Baptist
• *Eadwold of Cerne
• *Euphrasia Eluvathingal
• *John Bunyan
• *Sabina
• *Vitalis, Sator and Repositus
• *August 29
• International Day against Nuclear Tests
• Miners' Day
• Municipal Police's Day
• National Sports Day
• Slovak National Uprising Anniversary
• Telugu Language Day