Talk:August 29

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August 29: Feast day for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Christianity) 1533 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed Inca Emperor Atahualpa in Cajamarca. 1756 – As neighboring countries began conspiring against him, Frederick II of Prussia (pictured) launched a preemptive invasion of Saxony, starting the Seven Years' War. 1907 – The Quebec Bridge, currently the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at 549 m (1800 ft) connecting Quebec City and Lévis, Quebec, Canada across the St. Lawrence River, collapsed during construction, killing 75 workers. 1944 – World War II: Slovak troops turned against the pro-Nazi government of Jozef Tiso and the German Wehrmacht, starting the two-month long Slovak National Uprising. 2005 – Storm surges of Hurricane Katrina caused multiple breaches in levees around New Orleans, flooding about 80 percent of the city and many neighboring areas for weeks. More events: August 28 – August 29 – August 30 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 22:33, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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"The first Soviet atomic device was tested on August 29, 1949" source: Wikipedia Andrei Sakharov. This is a Talk page. This is a suggested addition. Are suggestions welcome? --Wetman 06:23, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

• 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana (especially New Orleans) to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,417 and costing over 75 billion dollars in damage. (source: August 29).
  • I think it would be self explanatory to add Katrina's landfall in New Orleans to the selected anniversaries. Jlove1982 14:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I deleted an item from the Events list - the alleged invention of chop suey in NYC in 1896. No one knows just who invented chop suey or even what year it was invented, much less the exact date. Even the Wiki article on chop suey, which the item linked to, cited multiple references to chop suey from the 1880s. PubliusFL 19:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC)