29 August History
- 70 - The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege.
- 1526 - Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushes a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs.
- 1533 - In Peru, the Inca chief Atahualpa is executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although the chief had already paid his ransom.
- 1776 - General George Washington retreats during the night from Long Island to New York City.
- 1793 - Slavery is abolished in Santo Domingo.
- 1862 - Union General John Pope's army is defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 1882 - Australia defeats England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary appears in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team.
- 1942 - The American Red Cross announces that Japan has refused to allow safe conduct for the passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war.
- 1945 - U.S. airborne troops are landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo, beginning the occupation of Japan.
- 1952 - In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bomb Pyongyang, North Korea.
- 1992 - Thousands of Germans demonstrate against a wave of racist attacks aimed at immigrants.
29 August Birthdays
- 1632 - John Locke, philosopher of liberalism whose ideas influenced the American founding fathers, famous for his treatise An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
- 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, essayist and father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- 1898 - Preston Sturges, screenwiter, film director and playwright.
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Oscar winning actress famous whose films include Casablanca and Anastasia.
- 1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, self-taught jazz saxophonist, pioneer of the new "cool" movement.
- 1924 - Dinah Washington, singer known in the 50s as "Queen of the Harlem Blues."
- 1927 - Marion Williams, gospel singer.
- 1958 - Michael Jackson, pop singer, entertainer.