August 29th
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- 1883
The first Carnegie library, financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, opens in Dunfermline, Scotland. This library is the first of 2,509 Carnegie libraries built around the world. View Post →
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- 708
Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time.
- 1498
Italian explorer Christopher Columbus lands on the South American mainland for the first time.
- 1533
Pizarro executes the last Inca emperor.
- 1885
Gottlieb Daimler receives a German patent for a motorcycle.
- 1907
The Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1929
The German airship Graf Zeppelin completes a round-the-world flight.
- 1954
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
- 1970
Members of the Black Panthers confront police in Philadelphia, resulting in the death of one officer.
- 1994
Mario Lemieux announces that he will take a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He will sit out the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1994-95 season.
- 1997
Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings in Scotts Valley, California, as an online DVD rental business.
- 2005
Hurricane Katrina makes its second and third landfalls as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. The hurricane causes over $115 billion in damage and leads to more than 1,836 deaths.
- 2012
Three Indian power grids collapse, resulting in more than 600 million people being without power in the world's biggest power outage.
- 2020
Elon Musk unveils a pig named Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain, as part of his Neuralink start-up, which aims to create a brain-to-machine interface.
- 1958
Michael Jackson, an American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor, is born.
