End of Summer
August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.
Interesting events this day:
708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1786 – Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1910 – Japan changes Korea’s name to Cho-sen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
And on 29 August, 2009, this wonderfully colourful set of photographs were tweeted to @SatScenes :
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- Brighton
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- Portugal
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- Pasco, WA
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- Amriswil
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- La Cala de Mijas
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- Worcester
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- Givatayim
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- Farmville
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- Central Coast, CA
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- Worcester
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- Nottingham
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- Vienna
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- Indiana
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- Dübendorf
- Pixelfreund
- Elshahawk
- wolfgang
- redalexred
- akrabat
- StacyJMT
- mousewords
- Elibrody
- Pewari
- akaSylvia
- vaxanta
- drewbenn
- ingridf
- colinbrooks
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