On This Day in History

August 29

Historical Events

1526 Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Kingdom of Hungary is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent

1825 Portugal recognizes the independence of its former colony Brazil

1842 United Kingdom and China sign the Treaty of Nanking, ending the First Opium War

1862 Second Battle of Bull Run begins in Manassas, Virginia, leads to a Confederate victory in the US Civil War

1949 Soviet Union secretly performs its first successful nuclear weapons test, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

A section of New Orleans, Louisiana is flooded after Hurricane Katrina

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its second and third landfall as a Category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 people and causing over $115 billion in damage

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Stories about activism from people changing the world.

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Famous Birthdays

John Locke 1632 - 1704 Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920 - 1955

Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009 Elliott Gould 86th Birthday

Also John McCain and Liam Payne (31).

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Famous Deaths

Charles Napier 1782 - 1853 Ingrid Bergman 1915 - 1982

Also Éamon de Valera and Brigham Young.

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Fighting The Scourge of Child Labour

Britain’s first Factory Act came into law on this day. It was passed mainly to save children from the dreadful conditions that they endured in their workplace.

The First Law to Prevent Child Labour