Here is a list of things which happened on the 29th of August over the years:
Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal. (1498)
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway. (1869)
The Goodyear tire company is founded. (1898)
The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. (1907)
American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis. (1944)
Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. (1949)
Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., ended the longest filibuster in Senate history after talking for 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill. (1957)
Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles “Pete” Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space. (1965)
Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar. (1970)
The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution. (1991)
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. (2005)
A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base. (2007)