August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. It is also the 1st day of Thoth - which is the 1st day of the Egyptian Horoscope. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
August 29 - Events.
708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1189- Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian stat ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH.
1980 - Events.
January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom.
January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother.
January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
1937 - Events.
January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
January 11 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participatin ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
1981 - Events.
January - Sarawak chamber found
January 1 - Greece enters the EEC
January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing
January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days
Janua ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
1939 - Events.
January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson.
January 13 - Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires.
January 24 - Earthquake kills 30.000 in Chile – about 50.000 sq mi razed
January 26 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
1936 - Events.
January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee.
January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
January 16 ...
1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)
1920 - Events.
January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk.
January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full.
January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
1933 - Events.
January 3 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai
January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain
January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover
January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government i ...
1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday.
1930 - Events.
January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
1930 - March. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
1988 - Events.
January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial.
1988 - February. ...
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the date of their death. As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
1944 - Events.
January 4 - The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 - Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk.
January 14 - The Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod.
January 17 - British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River.
January 17 - Meat Rationing ends in Australia.
January 20 - The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 to ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. 1970 is the Unix epoch time.
1970 - Events.
January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
January 15 - After a 32-mo ...
1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
1952 - Events.
January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
1952 - February.
February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...
1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday.
1949 - Events.
January 2 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage
January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish
January 5 - ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
1915 - Events.
January 12 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
January 12 - United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.
January 13 – An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy - 32.610 dead
January 19 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in adve ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1]
1989 - Events.
January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead
January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami
January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
January 10 - Assistant Austra ...
1541 - Events.
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 France on his third voyage.
July 9 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlockmen and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat ...
1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)
1914 - Events.
January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador.
January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
January 10 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of ChihuahuaIncluding:
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1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
1844 - Events.
January 15 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
February 27 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
February 28 - A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and ...
