Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 29

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 * 1475 – France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.


 * 1842 – Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.
 * 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
 * 1903 – Slava, the last of five Borodino-class battleships, was launched by the Imperial Russian Navy.
 * 1911 – The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.
 * 1916 – Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
 * 1930 – The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.
 * 1949 – The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
 * 1959 – Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
 * 1984 – Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
 * 1991 – Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
 * 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.
 * 2007 – Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
 * Born/died: Basil I |d|886| Abu Taghlib |d|979| Eystein I of Norway |d|1123| Charles of Taranto |d|1315| Hamida Banu Begum |d|1604| Edmond Hoyle |d|1769| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |b|1780| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.  Juan Bautista Alberdi |b|1810| Henry Bergh |b|1813| Vivien Thomas |b|1910| Otis Boykin |b|1920| Michael Jackson |b|1958| Lale Andersen |d|1972| Ingrid Bergman |bd|1915; 1982 |Mike Enriquez |d|2023

August 29: Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (Catholicism, Anglicanism)


 * 1350 – Hundred Years' War: Led by King Edward III, a fleet of 50 English ships captured at least 14 Castilian vessels and sank several more at the Battle of Winchelsea.
 * 1786 – Farmers in western Massachusetts angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement began an armed uprising led by Daniel Shays against the U.S. federal government.
 * 1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.
 * 1960 – Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.
 * 2016 – Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, later overseeing the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.