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August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.

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1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first
1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England
1484 - Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope
1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade
1526 - Battle of MohácsThis article explains the more well known Battle of Mohacs of 1526. There was also another battle in the same locality in 1687. The Battle of Mohacs was fought on August 29, 1526 between the Hungarian army led by Louis II and the Ottoman army led by Sulei: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the MagnificentSuleiman I ( November 6, 1494 September 5/ 6, 1566); in Turkish Suleyman , (nicknamed 'the Magnificent' or 'the Lawgiver', in Turkish 'Kanuni') was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566 and successor to Selim I. He was born at Trabzon, Turkey defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of HungaryThe Republic of Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars or Magyarorszag''. Magyar Koztarsasag ( In Detail) ( Full s and BohemiaBohemia Cechy in Czech, Bohmen in German) is an historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. With an area of 52,750 sq. 25 million of the country's 10. 3 million inabitants, Bohemia is bounded by Germ
1541Events The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish February 12 Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile. May 8 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River naming it Rio de Espiritu Santo. May 23 Jacques Cartier departs Saint-Malo Fr - The Ottoman Turks capture BudaBuda is a historical city in Hungary on the West bank of the Danube. It was the capital of Hungary from 1361 to 1541 when it was captured by the Ottoman Empire. In 1686 it was captured by Austria. Buda was united with Obuda and Pest in 1873 to form Budape, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom
1756Events March 17 St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern). May 15 Seven Years' War: The war begins when England declares war on France. August 29 Frederick the Great attacks Saxony October 1 Seve - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City
1898 - Goodyear tire company is founded
1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California
1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttle s most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government
1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
1949 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
1952 - Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York
1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1966 - Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco
1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb. An important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
1996 - A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard
1997 - Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, the first of nine victims
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf.
2004 - End of the 2004 Summer Olympics

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