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On this day in history - Today, August, 29

Today in History

  • 1988 Abdul Mohmand becomes the first person from Afghanistan to Visit Space

    Mohmand, an Afghan Air Force pilot was a crew member of the Soyuz TM-6, a Soviet spacecraft. He was

  • 1982 Meitnerium is Synthesized for the First time

    The radioactive synthetic element with an atomic number of 109 and the symbol Mt was first created a

  • 1966 Beatles’ Last Commercial Performance

    Popular British rock group, the Beatles, played their last live concert in front of a paying public

  • 1949 Soviet Union Tests its First Atomic Bomb

    Code named Izdeliye 501 or First Lightening, the 22 kiloton atomic bomb was detonated at the Semipa

  • 1831 Michael Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction

    Michael Faraday experimentally demonstrated that a changing magnetic field can induce a voltage in a

Illustration of stork, signifying birth

Births On This Day,
August, 29

  • 1958 Michael Jackson

    American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, actor

  • 1936 John McCain

    American politician

  • 1923 Richard Attenborough

    English director

  • 1915 Ingrid Bergman

    Swedish actress

  • 1632 John Locke

    English philosopher, physician

Illustration of tombstone, signifying death

Deaths On This Day,
August, 29

  • 1982 Ingrid Bergman

    Swedish actress

  • 1976 Kazi Nazrul Islam

    Indian flute player, poet

  • 1975 Éamon de Valera

    Irish politician, 3rd President of Ireland

  • 1966 Sayyid Qutb

    Egyptian theorist, author, poet

  • 1877 Brigham Young

    American religious leader 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of