August 29
Today is marked as an
International Day Against Nuclear Tests.
1898 – The Goodyear
tire company is founded.
1911 – Ishi,
considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1958 – United States Air Force Academy
opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.