Some of the significant events which took place on August 29 taken from the leaf of History:

1833 – The “Factory Act” was passed in England to settle child labor laws.

1842 – The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.

1885 – The first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.

1886 – In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang’s chef invented chop suey.

1892 – Pop (Billy) Shriver (Chicago Cubs) caught a ball that was dropped from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.

1905 – Hockey legend Dhyan Chand is born in Allahabad (now Prayag-Raj) in India. Dhyanchand is remembered for his quick goal scoring and for winning three Olympic gold medals for India.

1923 – Gangs of New York: In New York City a laundryman who was being bullied and blackmailed by the leader of the Dropper Gang Jak Kaplan took the law into his own hands when he shot and killed the notorious gangster chief. The police in New York have been trying to fasten some crime on Kaplan for the last 6 months have been saved the trouble by one of his victims who many see as a hero.

1928 – Haiti Hurricane: A severe hurricane in Haiti has left many thousands starving as nearly all local crops were destroyed during the hurricane. The famine is now affecting nearly 100,000 men, women and children.

1931 – Michael Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction: Michael Faraday experimentally demonstrated that a changing magnetic field can induce a voltage in a conductor. The discovery of electromagnetic induction helped in the creation of electric generators, transformers, and even induction cook tops. An English scientist, Faraday was a prolific researcher and inventor. In addition to discovering electromagnetic induction, he also discovered Benzene and electrolysis. The farad, an International System of Units (SI) measurement of a capacitance – the ability of an object to hold an electric charge was named after Faraday.

1945 – Restrictions on Gas Lifted: Predictions for traffic this coming Labor Day Weekend are predicted to be extremely high due to the restrictions on Gasoline sales having been lifted.

1947 – A drafting committee was set up with B. R. Ambedkar as the chairman to draft the Constitution of India.

1949 – Russian troops mass on the border: Radio Moscow has announced today that it has met with 7 communist countries including 4 that border with Yugoslavia over the Tito Question, meanwhile 400 communist tanks and 400,000 Russian troops have massed on the border with Yugoslavia in Hungary.

1949 – Soviet Union first atomic bomb: The Soviet Union test their first atomic bomb, it was near copy of the United States Fat Man bomb with a yield of 21 kilotons, making the Soviet Union the world’s second nuclear power. The world was not fully informed until September 23rd nearly one month later.

1965 – U.S.A. Gemini V: Gemini V returns to Earth bringing the two American astronauts Charles Conrad, and Gordon Cooper, back to Earth after having spent over a week orbiting the earth three days more than any previous missions to space.

1966 – Beatles Candlestick Park: The Beatles play their final tour date, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1974 – Windsor free festival: Windsor Free Festival ends when police clash with fans on the final day of the concert, arresting over 200 with charges ranging from breach of the peace to drugs offences. The 1974 festival was the last of the free festivals at Windsor Great Park held in 1972, 1973 and 1974.

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 at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany. Named after Austrian physicist and discoverer of nuclear fission, Lise Meitner, the element, which is not found naturally, was discovered by a team headed by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg.

1983 – U.S.A. Aids: The increase in the number of Aids cases in the United States could be as high as 20,000 if the spread of the disease continues at its current rate. The Aids virus is new to this country with 2,094 reported cases as of today, and currently nobody is sure where it started but believe possibly in Africa, Haiti or Japan.

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 in space for 9 days, which were spent at the Mir Space Station.

1992 – While Bosnia sinks into the worst cases of crimes against humanity since the Second World War, the rest of the world each looks to the other to provide the leadership needed to protect the innocents. Over 8000 have been slaughtered since April and 1.5 million driven from their homes in Ethnic cleansing by the Serbs.

1998 – Northwest Airlines Strike: A strike by pilots of Northwest Airlines has left 70,000 passengers stranded around the United States and the pilots have said they are prepared for long term action in support of their 15% pay rise. The main airports affected are the Northwest hubs at Minneapolis, Detroit and Memphis but all passengers using northwest including international travelers are also affected.

2002 – Eminem MTV Video Music Awards: The rapper Eminem scoops 4 awards including “Video of the Year: Without Meat” at the US MTV Video Music Awards.

2003 – Iraq Bomb Attack in Najaf: A car bomb has been detonated close to a mosque in the holy city of Najaf killing 80 and injuring a further 100, among those killed was Ayatollah Hakim a leading Shia Muslim politician.

2004 – Greece Olympics End for Four More Years: The 2004 Summer Olympics end with a spectacular closing ceremony watched by millions around the world as the Olympic Torch is extinguished and passed to China for the 2008 Beijing Games.

2005 – U.S.A. Hurricane Katrina: Hurricane Katrina a Category 5 Storm with sustained winds of 145 MPH and gusts reaching 175 MPH is the most destructive hurricane ever to hit the United States. The storm caused massive devastation in and around the city of New Orleans with some of the worst problems caused when storm surges overwhelmed the city’s levees, flooding 80 percent of the city. Many questions were asked about the federal government’s slow response to the people of New Orleans when compared with the response to earlier hurricanes in Florida.

2006 – Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged United States president George W. Bush to an uncensored televised debate. The White House declined his invitation dismissing it as a distraction from the concerns over Iran’s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad stated that an open debate would allow the rest of the world to see Iran’s viewpoints.

2006 – USA Warren Jeffs Arrested: Warren Steed Jeffs is arrested in Nevada by a local patrol officer, Warren Jeffs was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List due to his involvement for alleged arrangement of extralegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls. He was the leader of the controversial polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and in November 20, 2007 he was found guilty of multiple charges and sentenced to 10 years to life imprisonment.

2007 – United Kingdom Nelson Mandela Statue: A statue of the former South African president Nelson Mandela was unveiled in Parliament Square in London, England. Mandela and his wife were present for the unveiling and spoke to the crowds that gathered to witness the unveiling.

2008 – Iran – Nigeria Deal: Iran and Nigeria formed a deal in which Iran would share nuclear technology with Nigeria in order to help the country produce more electricity.

2009 – Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled Homicide: After an autopsy the Los Angles Coroner’s office ruled that the manner of pop star Michael Jackson’s death was homicide. The official cause of death was declared to be acute intoxication caused by the drug Propofol.

2011 – Airplane Skids off Runway in India: Seven passengers were injured when a Gulf Air plane skidded off the runway when landing at Kochi airport in India. Officials stated that the plane arriving from Bahrain narrowly avoided a worse fate by stopping in the mud only thirty meters away from a wall.

2011 – Texas freshwater Lakes: Following Extreme drought conditions during the summer Texas freshwater lakes are a fraction of their usual water levels with the state’s reservoirs to be at only 68% capacity.

2012 – Australia surfer survives shark attack: A man in his thirties suffered injuries on his abdomen and right arm after being attacked by a shark in waters near Western Australia. Other surfers dragged the man from the water and he was taken to a hospital and was reported in stable condition. Authorities were unable to identify what kind of shark attacked.

2013 – United States fast food workers strike: Hundreds of fast food workers went on strike in several US cities demanding an increase of wages to about $15.00 an hour, nearly double what most employees at fast food chains earn. Many of the protesters are also wanting the right to unionized without any interference from their employers.

2015 – An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison. Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed were all arrested in December 2013 on terrorism-related charges.

2015 – South Sudan’s rebel chief Riek Machar ordered his troops to lay down their arms in line with a ceasefire to end a 20-month civil war. South Sudan’s army and rebels accused each other of sparking fresh fighting in the north-east, hours before the start of a ceasefire to end a brutal 20-month civil war.

2016 – In western Japan a shooting at a small construction company in Wakayama killed one employee and left three others injured. On August 31 suspect Yasuhide Mizobata ended an 18-hour standoff with police by shooting himself in the stomach, and was taken to a hospital where he reportedly died.

2016 – In Yemen a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group in the southern city of Aden killed at least 54 pro-government recruits who had been preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia to fight Houthi rebels in Yemen’s north.

2017 – In northern California the Ponderosa Fire ignited in the Sierra foothills of Butte County about 15 miles east of Lake Oroville.

2017 – North Korea fired a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload that flew over Japan and splashed into the northern Pacific Ocean. US President Donald Trump said North Korea had signaled its “contempt for its neighbors” and that “all options are on the table” in terms of a US response. The foreign ministers of Russia and the United Arab Emirates urged North Korea to stop its provocations and obey UN resolutions.

2018 – It was reported that cocoa firms operating in Cameroon have moved staff out of the Anglophone region of the country and farmers are abandoning their crops in the area, as violence between separatists and security forces intensifies.

2018 – In Kashmir rebels fighting against Indian rule ambushed a group of police officials and killed four of them. Separately, two Kashmiri rebels were killed in a gunfight with government forces, triggering clashes in which at least 40 people were injured.

2018 – In Slovenia five moderate parties signed an agreement to form a center-left government, sidelining a right-wing group that won most votes during an inconclusive election in June.