Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 29

August 29:

 * 1756 - Birth of Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)


 * 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle


 * 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan


 * 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany


 * 1989 - Death of Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)