Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 29
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This is a list of selected August 29 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.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.
