August 29

870 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, completing the moslem occupation of Malta.

1526 – Over 160 years before the last battle between Christendom and islam in the area around Mohács, Hungary, the Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman I, defeat and kill Louis II, the last king of Hungary and Bohemia of the Jagiellonian dynasty

1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. (n.b. The city of Buda is just across the Danube river from the city of Pest, the now combined city capital of Hungary, Budapest.)

1758 – The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape tribe.

1786 – After the Massachusetts state legislature adjourns without considering the petitions sent to Boston by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays and other farmers, he leads several thousand men in an armed uprising against high taxation rates.

1779 – American forces under the command of General John Sullivan defeat Tory Militia and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown in Chemung County, New York, during the Revolutionary War.

1825 – Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian war of independence.

1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

1861 – Federal forces gain control of Pamlico Sound after defeating Confederate forces manning the coastal defense batteries at the Cape Hatteras inlet in North Carolina.

1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire opens, the world’s first mountain climbing rack railway.

1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

1898 – The Goodyear Tire Company is founded.

1916 – The Philippine Autonomy Act is signed into law by President Wilson, creating an all-Filipino legislature and officially declaring the U.S. government’s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.

1949 – The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, a design stolen from the U.S., known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1958 – The United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1965 – The Gemini V mission splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after nearly 8 days in orbit, establishing a new record of time spent in space.

1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

1997 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina hits the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

2022 – Ukraine begins a counteroffensive against Russian forces in the Kherson Oblast on the south central Black Sea coast.