On this day in 1526, in the battle of Mohacs, the Turkish Sultan Suleiman I defeated the troops of the Hungarian and Czech king. The battle began with an attack by knightly cavalry on the right flank of the Turkish army, and the center and left flank of the Hungarian army, which consisted of infantry, moved forward with an even march and supported by cannon fire. Soon, the mounted knights entered into battle with the Turkish cavalry. The Turks immediately began to retreat. Deciding that the battle was going on successfully, the Hungarians began to pursue the retreating Turks.

At the same time, Christian foot units entered the battle, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Janissary regiments in the center and on the left flank. Meanwhile, the knightly cavalry, in pursuit of the retreating Turkish horsemen, came under a hurricane of fire from Turkish cannons and riflemen with muskets, and the attack was drowned. Having introduced reserves into battle and opened fire from cannons along the entire front, having a decisive numerical superiority, the Turks soon began to push Christians to the Danube, depriving them of the opportunity to retreat in an organized manner. As a result, the remnants of the knightly cavalry ran back, and the foot mercenaries continued to fight steadily to the end. An hour and a half later, the battle ended with the complete victory of the army of Suleiman I. The entire army of King Lajos II was destroyed, the king himself and all the commanders of the army were killed in the retreat.

Killed 15 thousand Christians, the remaining prisoners were executed. The victory at Mohacs opened the way for Sultan Suleiman I to the Hungarian capital Buda. Two weeks after the battle, the city capitulated to the Turkish army.

On August 29, 1698, Peter I, seeking to bring Russia closer to Europe, issued a decree instructing the boyars to shave their beards. This caused a lot of protests, since the traditional Orthodox image of a pious Christian and a worthy person required wearing it.

But the emperor was not at all interested in the opinion of his subjects on this issue, and he went even further, in January 1705 issuing a decree on the payment of a special duty for wearing a beard. For different categories of the population, the amount varied from 30 to 100 rubles, bearded peasants paid one kopeck when entering the city. Those who paid were given a special beard badge, and only priests and deacons were allowed to have facial hair without payment. In 1713, wearing a beard was finally and irrevocably banned.

On August 29, 1756, King Frederick II of Prussia with an army of 60,000 invaded Saxony, initiating the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763.

On August 29, 1831 Michael Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction... Electromagnetic induction - the phenomenon of the occurrence of an electric current in a closed loop when the magnetic flux passing through it changes. Michael Faraday discovered that the electromotive force that occurs in a closed conductive circuit is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux through the surface bounded by this circuit. The magnitude of the electromotive force (EMF) does not depend on what is the cause of the change in flux - a change in the magnetic field itself or the movement of a circuit (or part of it) in a magnetic field. The electric current caused by this EMF is called induction current.

On August 29, 1842, the First Opium War ended with the Nanking Treaty between Great Britain and China.... Under the agreement, China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain and opened five ports for its ships, and also paid $ 23 million in war indemnities.

On this day in 1862, during a military campaign to the Papal States in the battle of Aspromonte (Calabria), Giuseppe Garibaldi was wounded and arrested. The Russian surgeon Pirogov saved Garibaldi from amputation of his leg, and a wave of protests around the world demanding the release of Garibaldi forced the Sardinian authorities to "amnesty" him and expel him to the island of Caprera.

August 29, 1862 year was born Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel laureate of 1911 "for a multifaceted literary activity, especially for dramatic works, marked by a wealth of imagination and poetic fantasy."

On August 29, 1883, in Ottawa, Thomas Ahern demonstratedthe first electric stove.During his life, Ahern received 9 patents for inventions in the field of electrical engineering. Surprisingly, there is no patent for an electric stove among them. In general, everything is very unusual with the stove. In 1883, Ahern simply showed how you can cook food using the properties of electric current. It is not possible to understand now what the object looked like, which was the world's first electric stove. Ahern himself forgot about him for 9 years.

In 1892, a reception was held at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa in honor of our distinguished guests. Thomas Ahern contributed his invention to cooking dinner. As the Canadian press wrote at the time, “the dinner was prepared with tamed lightning,” but everyone liked the food itself. And again this invention was forgotten. Ahern himself was never involved in the domestic development of electric stoves.

On August 29, 1885, the world's first motorcycle called "Reitwagen" was patented... It was created by the famous German engineer Gottlieb Daimler together with Wilhelm Maybach. Basically, the design was intended to test the capabilities of the internal combustion engine, the development of which was completed in time for 1885. The bicycle proved to be the perfect mechanism for this purpose. It weighed about 70 kg and had a wooden frame to which was attached a single-cylinder petrol engine with a volume of 264 cc and 0.5 hp. Its wheels were lined with iron, and the speed was almost 12 km / h. Maybach, who rolled first on a new invention, categorically refused to ever repeat this experience.

On this day in 1897 in Basel, at the I World Zionist Congress, held from 29 to 31 August, at the initiative of Theodor Herzl, the World Zionist Organization was created, which adopted the Star of David as the official emblem.

On August 29, 1912, the panorama "Battle of Borodino" was opened in Moscow.The huge canvas was commissioned by the German artist Franz Roubaud on the eve of the centenary of the beginning of the Patriotic War of 1812. To embody the plot conceived by the author, a special room was built in Munich, in which a canvas 15 meters wide and 115 meters long was fully unfolded. It took almost a year to work on it. Then the finished gigantic painting was wound on a shaft and taken to Moscow, where at Chistye Prudy it was also exhibited in a specially built pavilion. The Battle of Borodino was a huge success, but in 1918 the canvas, which had suffered from the leaking glass roof of the pavilion, was rewound around the shaft and removed to storage. The panorama was opened after many years of restoration in 1962 in a new building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.

August 29, 1915 was bornIngrid Bergman, Swedish film actress, winner of three "Oscars" ("Anastasia", "Murder on the Orient Express", "Gas Light"). She died on her birthday in 1982.

On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet nuclear bomb RDS-1 was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. Its name came from a government decree in which the device was called, for the sake of secrecy, a "special jet engine". The bomb design was largely based on the American-designed Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki, but some of the systems were Soviet-designed. The work was supervised by I.V. Kurchatov and Yu.B. Khariton. The power of the bomb was 22 kilotons. When it exploded, a crater with a diameter of about 3 m and a depth of 1.5 m was formed, and the tower 37 m high, on which the charge was installed, was completely destroyed.

On this day in 1958, Michael Jackson, an American singer, dancer and songwriter, was born. Michael was born in Gary, Indiana, USA, he was the seventh child of nine children. Young Michael entered show business at the age of five, when his father organized the Jackson 5 family ensemble, which, in addition to Michael, included four of his older brothers. It soon became clear that the kid had outstanding musical abilities. It was a young talent that propelled the group from the category of local celebrities to their first serious contract.

On this day in 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan adopted a declaration "On the restoration of state independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan", speaking on Radio Russia, President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin said that "the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Union has not exhausted itself" and that "we should not be afraid of the announcement of a number of republics its independence ”, and the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was closed in Kazakhstan.

In 1689, the first Russian trade and diplomatic treaty with China was signed in the city of Nerchinsk on the Shilka River.

Russia had to abandon the Amur Territory: “to tear down to the ground” the Russian fortress Albazin, which became the cause of the conflict, and to transfer the lands of the Albazin Voivodeship to China.

These lands were conquered by the Cossack chieftains with a handful of "free hunters" since 1620: Vasily Poyarkov discovered the Amur River, the earth-finder Erofei Khabarov conquered the Amur lands. The Russians founded Nerchinsk, a base for campaigns on the Amur.

And the Yenisei governor Afanasy Pashkov penetrated into the Amur basin from the side of Transbaikalia. In the 19th century, Russia regained all these lands.

On August 29, 1831, the white autograph of Pushkin's "Tales of Tsar Saltan, of his glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the beautiful princess Swan" was dated.


Pushkin stylized the title under the title of popular novels, since at that time the romantic fashion for folklore began in Russia. Pushkin wrote "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", competing with Vasily Zhukovsky in poetry.

Gogol spoke of Pushkin's poetic experiments in the following way: "Russian folk tales are not like Ruslan and Lyudmila, but completely Russian ... Incredible charm."

In 1842, the Opium War, which lasted for 3 years, ended with the conclusion of the Nanking Treaty between Great Britain and China.



The British, in the absence of another good profitable product, focused on importing Indian opium into China, which not only harmed the health of the population, but also undermined the Chinese economy.

In 1839, the opium trade in China was banned and, by order of the emperor, about a ton of drugs belonging to the British were destroyed. London immediately declared war on China and won it.

China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain, opened 5 ports for its ships and paid $ 23 million in indemnity.

On August 29, 1870, 15-year-old Arthur Rimbaud ran away from home.


Without money or a ticket, I took a train to Paris. Halfway through, he was detained and placed in prison, from which the future poet was rescued by the teacher Georges Izambard. The fugitive was returned home.

In October of the same year he fled again; it was returned again. In February 1871 he fled for the third time. Reached Paris; but in March, unable to withstand the hungry life, he returned himself. In September of the same year he was invited to Paris by Paul Verlaine. The fourth escape attempt was final.

In 1885, one of the pioneers of motorism, Gottlieb Daimler, received a German motorcycle patent.


The first "motorbike" weighing about 70 kg was equipped with a 0.5 liter single-cylinder internal combustion engine. sec., which allowed speeds up to 12 km / h. The pioneer of motorcycle riding was Paul Daimler, who after a couple of months covered a distance of 10 km on his father's carriage.

The designer himself did not particularly count on the commercial success of the motorcycle and, rather, saw in it a kind of apparatus for testing new models of gasoline engines.

On the same day in 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan was closed.



It was created by the decision of the Soviet government on August 21, 1947 and closed by the decree of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev exactly 40 years after the first explosion.

On August 29, 1949, at 7 a.m., the first atomic bomb in the USSR was detonated at the test site. On August 12, 1953, a thermonuclear device was tested here for the first time in the world, and on November 22, 1955, a hydrogen bomb was tested.

Until 1963, about 60 air, ground and underground explosions were made 120 kilometers from Semipalatinsk. Tests were carried out up to 1989; there were about 470 of them. The total power of the exploded charges was 2.5 thousand times higher than the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

In 1995, the last nuclear device was destroyed at the test site, and in the summer of 2000, the last adit in which the tests were carried out was blown up.

375 years ago, in 1632, the great English philosopher was born, whose ideas formed the basis for the formation of the current liberal democracy - John Locke.


In 1690 he published two treatises "On Government". Locke first defined the relationship between rulers and subordinates as a "social contract" in which both parties take on obligations.

Citizens - to obey the reasonable orders of the rulers and not to violate the laws arising from natural law, and the rulers - to protect the rights of citizens transferred to them by agreement.

Locke denied absolutism and did not recognize the divine rights of the monarch. John Locke also owns the treatise "Thoughts on Education", which had a tremendous impact on world pedagogy, and many other important works.

There was a knock on his door with the question "Does a painter of portraits live here?" - he answered with dignity: "The artist lives here." Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780.


He lectured: "Every line has a tendency to be not flat, but convex." He stated: "In every head, the first thing to do is to make the eyes speak."

He was angry: “Damn portraits! They distract me from important things. " He considered himself a historical painter. His painting "The Vow of Louis XIII" brought him a resounding success.

A great portrait painter - he never flattered his models. Among them are Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Baroness Rothschild.

With his death, the era of classicism ended.

"Only imaginary castles are suitable for life," said the Belgian poet, playwright and philosopher Maurice Maeterlinck, born on the same day in 1862, exactly 145 years ago.


He was called an idealist, a symbolist, a Belgian Shakespeare and a brilliant mystic. His work is “the drama of silence, hints and omissions”. He called himself a poet and claimed that all his dramas were "written in verse, and only printed like prose."

Its main themes are death, the meaning of human life, the place and role of man on earth. His masterpiece is the philosophical parable play "The Blue Bird", first staged by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater.

In 1915, the future screen star Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm.


She was almost canonized for the role of Joan of Arc. She was almost crucified for her love for Roberto Rossellini. And she was neither a saint, nor a sinner. She was just a woman who had been looking for love all her life and was not afraid to pay the bills.

She was a wonderful actress. She could not imagine herself outside the theater and cinema, choked without roles, yearned when, due to pregnancies or Rossellini's whims, she was forced not to work.

She even agreed to roles in third-rate films, which is a strange thing! - ennobled herself so much that critics treated them more leniently than they deserved.

And she turned good films into masterpieces. She starred in a huge number of films, played in many performances, was nominated seven times for an Oscar and two times - for "Casablanca" and "Autumn Sonata" - she received it.

“Nature created him as a genius. If he decided to become a locksmith, he would be a genius locksmith. But he chose music, "one of his friends said about Charlie Parker.


Charlie Parker, an outstanding American jazz musician and founder of the bebop style, was born on the same day in 1920 in the black ghetto of the gangster city of Kansas City. The first used alto saxophone was given to him by his mother. Later they will say that he was born with him.

At 15, Charlie married for the first time, dropped out of school and became a professional musician. His world is the smoky nightclubs where modern jazz was born. Later they will say that it was he who created it.

Parker died at 34, surviving loneliness, drugs and worldwide fame. He was called - "birdie", the king of the bebop style, the immortal personality in the world of jazz, the genius of improvisation, the great saxophonist.

World history, significant and fateful events, the birth of celebrities, as well as their death, discoveries and accomplishments that took place for many centuries on the day of August 29, to one degree or another are reflected on this page - which you can read, learn more about this day of the year.

We will tell you in more detail about this day, as well as about the rest of the days of the year, because on the day of August 29, a variety of events, incidents, discoveries took place, amazing, both explainable and incomprehensible to you and me things, and so on - what makes him so special what he was and you will read below in the text.

This section "about every day of the year" and in particular on August 29 - displays the most significant events that at one time or another took place in our world, and starting from the distant times before our era. Here you will learn about amazing discoveries and scientific achievements, turning points in the history of the world or some country, making fateful decisions by politicians and rulers, get acquainted not only with the birth of famous people of the world, politicians, generals, especially royal ones, but also with the days of their death , as well as what outcome awaited them.

August 29 to 20 ( XX) century - what was the day?

1030 - Not far from Baku, the Rus defeated the army of Shirvan Shah Manuchihr I ibn Yazid and climbed up the Kura River to its confluence with the Araks.

1191 - By order of the English king Richard I in Acre (Palestine), the crusaders slaughtered three thousand captured Muslims.

1526 - In the battle of Mohacs, the Turkish Sultan Suleiman II defeated the troops of the Hungarian and Czech king Louis II.

1533 - The Spaniards strangled the last Inca emperor, Atahualpa.

1634 - The ambassador of Tarkov's shamkhal Ildar arrived in Moscow as a mediator in the negotiations between Russia and Iran.

1698 - After returning to Moscow from the Grand Embassy, \u200b\u200bPeter I signed a decree ordering to shave beards and wear European-style clothes.

1756 - King of Prussia Frederick II invaded Saxony with an army of 60,000, initiating the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763.

1758 First Indian Reservation established in New Jersey. Interestingly, America itself was still a colony, but the enslavement of the indigenous people had already begun.

1825 - Attempt by Biybulat to take the Groznaya fortress.

1825 King John VI of Portugal recognized the independence of Brazil.

1831 - Michael Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction.

1842 - The First Opium War ends with the Treaty of Nanking between Great Britain and China. Under the agreement, China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain and opened five ports for its ships, and also paid $ 23 million in war indemnities.

1868 - Pokrovsky was born, Mikhail Nikolaevich (d. 1932), Soviet historian, head of the Communist Academy of the Institute of Red Professors. The author of "Russian history from ancient times."

1877 - The beginning of the general uprising in Dagestan.

1883 Thomas Ahern demonstrates the first electric stove in Ottawa.

1896 - About three thousand Armenians were massacred in the Ottoman Empire.

1897 - In Basel, at the I World Zionist Congress, held from 29 to 31 August, on the initiative of Theodor Herzl, the World Zionist Organization was created, which adopted the Star of David as its official emblem.

August 29, 1905 - what was the day?

1905 - The Portsmouth Treaty was signed (the war between Russia and Japan in 1904-1905 ended).

August 29, 1910 - what was the day?

1910 - Japan announced the annexation of Korea.

August 29, 1920 - what was the day?

1920 - M. Frunze's troops occupied the Bukhara Emirate.

August 29, 1930 - what was the day?

1930 - For the first time in the USSR, an aircraft was refueled with fuel in the air from another aircraft.

1930 - On the basis of the aeromechanical faculty of MVTU, a new university was created - the Moscow Aviation Institute.

1933 - In Germany, it is announced that Jews should live in concentration camps.

August 29, 1936 - what was the day?

1936 - The first live television broadcast of a football match between Arsenal and Everton takes place in the UK.

August 29, 1938 - what was the day?

1938 - The leader of the Hungarian revolution, Bela Kun, was executed in the USSR, accused of spying for Germany and England.

1938 - Distance learning in universities was introduced in the USSR.

August 29, 1939 - what was the day?

1939 - The first issue of the Military Historical Journal was published.

Now you are reading about the day of August 29 - what this day left about itself in human memory, how it differs from other days of the year, how historians and history will remember it for many centuries. It is not worth reminding or remembering that every day is special in its own way, like the one you are reading about, in which we hope you agree - we are sure that it is hardly possible to find two people who look alike in the world, just as there are no two identical days!

August 29, 1941 - what day was it?

1941 - In Kamenets-Podolsk, about 11 thousand people were executed by the Nazis.

1941 - Malenkov, Molotov and Zhdanov proposed to Stalin to deport 96 thousand Germans and Finns from Leningrad.

August 29, 1944 - what was the day?

1944 - The beginning of the Slovak popular uprising, the center of which was Banská Bystrica. One of its leaders was the future leader of Czechoslovakia, Gustav Husak.

August 29, 1949 - what was the day?

1949 - The USSR conducted the first test of the atomic bomb.

August 29, 1958 - what was the day?

1958 - Michael Jackson is born (d. 2009), Singer, dancer, composer, King of Pop.

August 29, 1964 - what was the day?

1964 - The Volga Germans were rehabilitated.

August 29, 1967 - what was the day?

1967 - About 150 Egyptian officers are arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow Egyptian President Nasser.

August 29, 1973 - what was the day?

1973 - Under the heading "When they lose honor and conscience," Pravda published a "Letter from 40 academicians" condemning the activities of AD Sakharov.

1973 - Egyptian President Sadat and Libyan leader Gaddafi announced the unification of Egypt and Libya.

August 29, 1978 - what was the day?

1978 - Soviet athlete Vilma Bardauskienė was the first in the world to jump more than seven meters

Each of us also remembered the day of August 29 with something, someone has his own name day or his relatives, acquaintances or friends, or maybe he is remembered by some special events that happened in our life, although it is quite possible that he was not remembered for anything like that ... In any case, this day, like the rest of the year, we should live for the benefit of ourselves, our relatives and society as a whole, so that if it does not get imprinted in our memory with something significant and unusual, then at least it does not disappoint, but brings some positive emotions, charged us with positive energy for the coming days!

August 29, 1991 - what was the day?

1991 - The Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan was closed.

August 29, 1999 - what was the day?

1999 - In Donetsk, a lifetime monument to the six-time world pole vault champion Sergei Bubka was unveiled.

August 29, 2001 - what was the day?

2001 - Discovered the human gene for longevity.

August 29, 2008 - what was the day?

2008 - FC Zenit won the UEFA Super Cup, beating Champions League winner Manchester United 2-1.

What was the day of August 29 - what do you remember?

The day of August 29 will be remembered for its own achievements, the course of history, traditions, holidays, as well as what kind of events took place, who was born of outstanding people, among whom are famous politicians, royalty, rulers, commanders and traitors, artists and actors, scientists and famous artists, successful athletes and scientists, discoverers and travelers, singers and musicians, like many others.

In addition to what happened on August 29, you also learned about the significant and memorable dates of this January day, enriched yourself with new knowledge - folk sayings and omens, learned what holidays are celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox. We hope you are convinced that every day is individual and special in its own way - August 29, like other days of the year, is unforgettable and unique, it has its own personal history, unlike anyone else!

We are sure that it was interesting for you to learn about the day of August 29 - we, for our part, promise to replenish the page with new data that we will be able to get about this day, supplement the article, expand it with new events or old interesting news about which we still do not know , but what certainly were and they will certainly appear!

385 years ago, on August 29, 1632, the great English philosopher was born, whose ideas formed the basis for the formation of the current liberal democracy - John Locke.

In 1690 he published two treatises "On Government". Locke first defined the relationship between rulers and subordinates as a "social contract" in which both parties take on obligations. Citizens - to obey the reasonable orders of the rulers and not to violate the laws arising from natural law, and the rulers - to protect the rights of citizens transferred to them by agreement.

Locke denied absolutism and did not recognize the divine rights of the monarch. John Locke also owns the treatise "Thoughts on Education", which had a tremendous impact on world pedagogy, and many other important works.

On August 29, 1689, the first Russian trade and diplomatic agreement with China was signed in the city of Nerchinsk on the Shilka River. Russia had to abandon the Amur Territory: “to tear down to the ground” the Russian fortress Albazin, which became the cause of the conflict, and to transfer the lands of the Albazin Voivodeship to China. These lands were conquered by the Cossack chieftains with a handful of "free hunters" since 1620: Vasily Poyarkov discovered the Amur River, the earth-finder Erofei Khabarov conquered the Amur lands.

The Russians founded Nerchinsk, a base for campaigns on the Amur. And the Yenisei governor Afanasy Pashkov penetrated into the Amur basin from the side of Transbaikalia. In the 19th century, Russia regained all these lands.

There was a knock on his door with the question "Does a portrait painter live here?" - he answered with dignity: "An artist lives here." Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780.

He lectured: "Every line has a tendency to be not flat, but convex." He stated: "In every head, the first thing to do is to make the eyes speak." He was angry: “Damn portraits! They distract me from important things. " He considered himself a historical painter. His painting "The Vow of Louis XIII" brought him a resounding success.

A great portrait painter - he never flattered his models. Among them are Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Baroness Rothschild.

With his death, the era of classicism ended.

On August 29, 1831, the white autograph of Pushkin's "Tales of Tsar Saltan, of his glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the beautiful princess Swan" was dated.

Pushkin stylized the title under the title of popular short stories, since at that time the romantic fashion for folklore began in Russia. Pushkin wrote "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", competing with Vasily Zhukovsky in poetry. Gogol spoke about Pushkin's poetic experiments in the following way: "Russian folk tales are not like Ruslan and Lyudmila, but completely Russian ... Incredible charm."

On August 29, 1842, the Opium War, which lasted 3 years, ended with the conclusion of the Nanking Treaty between Great Britain and China. The British, in the absence of other good profitable goods, focused on importing Indian opium into China, which not only harmed the health of the population, but also undermined the Chinese economy. In 1839, the opium trade in China was banned and, by order of the emperor, about a ton of drugs belonging to the British were destroyed.

London immediately declared war on China and won it. China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain, opened 5 ports for its ships and paid $ 23 million in indemnity.

"Only imaginary castles are suitable for life," said the Belgian poet, playwright and philosopher Maurice Maeterlinck, born on August 29, 1862, exactly 155 years ago. He was called an idealist, a symbolist, a Belgian Shakespeare and a brilliant mystic. His work - "the drama of silence, hints and omissions"

He called himself a poet and claimed that all his dramas were "written in verse, and only printed like prose." Its main themes are death, the meaning of human life, the place and role of man on earth. His masterpiece is the philosophical parable play "The Blue Bird", first staged by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater.

On August 29, 1870, 15-year-old Arthur Rimbaud ran away from home. Without money or a ticket, I took a train to Paris. Halfway through, he was detained and placed in prison, from which the future poet was rescued by the teacher Georges Izambard. The fugitive was returned home. In October of the same year he fled again; it was returned again.

In February 1871 he fled for the third time. Reached Paris; but in March, unable to withstand the hungry life, he returned himself. In September of the same year he was invited to Paris by Paul Verlaine. The fourth escape attempt was final.

On August 29, 1885, one of the pioneers of motorism, Gottlieb Daimler, received a German motorcycle patent.

The first "motorbike" weighing about 70 kg was equipped with a 0.5 liter single-cylinder internal combustion engine. sec., which allowed speeds up to 12 km / h. The pioneer of motorcycle riding was Paul Daimler, who after a couple of months covered a distance of 10 km on his father's carriage. The designer himself did not particularly count on the commercial success of the motorcycle and, rather, saw in it a kind of apparatus for testing new models of gasoline engines.

“Nature created him as a genius. If he decided to become a locksmith, he would be a genius locksmith. But he chose music, "one of his friends said about Charlie Parker.
Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920, in the black ghetto of the gangster city of Kansas City, an outstanding American jazz musician, founder of the "be-bop" style. The first used alto saxophone was given to him by his mother. Later they will say that he was born with him.

At 15, Charlie married for the first time, dropped out of school and became a professional musician. His world is the smoky nightclubs where modern jazz was born. Later they will say that it was he who created it.

Parker died at 34, surviving loneliness, drugs and worldwide fame. He was called - "birdie", the king of the bebop style, the immortal personality in the world of jazz, the genius of improvisation, the great saxophonist.

In 1915, the future screen star Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm.

She was almost canonized for the role of Joan of Arc. She was almost crucified for her love for Roberto Rossellini. And she was neither a saint, nor a sinner. She was just a woman who had been looking for love all her life and was not afraid to pay the bills.

She was a wonderful actress. She could not imagine herself outside the theater and cinema, choked without roles, yearned when, due to pregnancies or Rossellini's whims, she was forced not to work. She even agreed to roles in third-rate films, which is a strange thing! - ennobled herself so much that critics treated them more leniently than they deserved. And she turned good films into masterpieces. She starred in a huge number of films, played in many performances, was nominated seven times for an Oscar and two times - for "Casablanca" and "Autumn Sonata" - she received it.

On August 29, 1982, the great Ingrid passed away. She died in London on the day of her 67th birthday ...

On August 27, 1990, Stevie Rae Vaughan, an American blues rock guitarist, tragically passed away. The musician died along with three members of Eric Clapton's band when the helicopter on which they were flying crashed into a hill in the Wisconsin mountains in the fog.

With his amazing filigree guitar technique, Stevie Vaughan pioneered the renaissance of the blues in the 80s. He created a unique guitar style and sound, unlike any other famous guitarist, regardless of the genre of performance. Vaughan bridged the divide between blues and rock, something that no musician has been able to do since the late 1960s. For seven years, Stevie was the guitarist he looked up to. His concerts were sold out, his albums went gold. The tragic death gave particular mystical significance to his impact on American rock and roll and blues.

In 1995, the last nuclear device was destroyed at the test site, and in the summer of 2000, the last adit in which the tests were carried out was blown up.

International Day Against Nuclear Tests.

Commemorative date of the United Nations established by the resolution of the General Assembly on December 2, 2009. The Republic of Kazakhstan took the initiative to adopt the resolution.

On August 29, 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was closed by the decree of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. It was created in 1947 by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the region of the Irtysh River, 170 kilometers from Semipalatinsk. Two years later, the first nuclear test took place at the site.

From 1949 to 1989, about 460 nuclear tests were carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. In total, since 1945 about 2 thousand nuclear bombs have been tested in the world.

The Venice International Film Festival will open.

It will be held on the island of Lido for the 75th time. 22 films will compete for the main prize of this oldest film festival - "Golden Lion". The festival will run until September 8th.

The Spanish city of Bunyol will host the famous Tomatina festival (also known as the Battle of the Tomatoes)

It takes place in the last week of August.

The tradition originated in 1945, when at the end of summer holiday a group of young people staged a comic brawl, throwing tomatoes at each other. The police dispersed them and made them pay for the spoiled vegetables, but exactly a year later they gathered there and already with their tomatoes. Very soon the festival became a citywide one, and in 2002 it was awarded the international status.

69 years ago (1949), the first Soviet atomic bomb was tested at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

The first Soviet atomic bomb RDS-1 was created at KB-11 (now the Russian Federal Nuclear Center) under the leadership of Igor Kurchatov and Yuliy Khariton. Its mass was 4.7 tons, diameter - 1.5 meters and length - 3.3 meters.

For the successful development and testing of the atomic bomb by a closed decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 29, 1949, orders and medals were awarded to a large group of leading researchers, designers, technologists, and the direct developers of the nuclear charge were awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

74 years ago (1944), during the Great Patriotic War, the Belarusian strategic offensive operation "Bagration" ended.

The plan of the operation, which became one of the largest in the history of the world, began to be developed in April 1944. Its plan was to crush the flanks of the German Army Group Center and encircle its main forces east of Minsk.

During the operation, which was carried out from June 23 to August 29, 1944, the troops of the 1st Baltic, 3rd, 2nd and 1st Belorussian fronts, with the support of the Dnieper military flotilla, liberated Belarus, part of the territories of Lithuania and Latvia, withdrew to the territory of Poland and to the borders of East Prussia. In order to resist the Soviet troops, the fascist German enemy command transferred a significant part of its forces to Belarus from the western front. This facilitated the allied offensive in France.

80 years ago (1938), correspondence higher education was introduced in the USSR.

The system of correspondence education began to form in our country in 1919, when the 8th Congress of the Communist Party decided to provide state assistance to the self-education and self-development of workers and peasants. In the 1920s, they began to publish special literature for self-education (School at Home, People's University at Home, Working College at Home, Study Itself, etc.). Courses with a correspondence system of education began to open, and also correspondence departments were opened at some Moscow universities (Moscow State University, the K.A. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, etc.). By the beginning of the 1930s, more than 350 thousand people studied in higher and secondary educational institutions of the correspondence education system, the Central Institute of Distance Education and a number of specialized correspondence institutions were formed.

On August 29, 1938, the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On higher correspondence education" established a list of specialties for the correspondence education system, and also created a network of independent correspondence universities. The course system of training and the obligatory passing of all exams and tests were introduced. Additional paid vacations at the place of work were established for part-time students. A year later, the Regulation on the correspondence postgraduate study was approved.

120 years ago (1898) the Museum of Fine Arts named after Alexander III was founded in Moscow (now - the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin).

Its creation in 1893 was initiated by the Honored Professor of Moscow State University, Doctor of Roman Literature and art historian Ivan Tsvetaev. The museum is based on the collection of the Cabinet of Fine Arts and Antiquities of the University.

On June 13, 1912, the grand opening of the museum took place, which was attended by Emperor Nicholas II and the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

In 1932, the Museum of Fine Arts was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1937 it was named after A.S. Pushkin.

Currently, the building complex of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin includes the Main Building, the Museum of Private Collections, the Gallery of Art of the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries, and the Museion Children's Center. There are also the Tsvetaev Educational Museum and the Memorial Apartment of Svyatoslav Richter as departments. The collection of the museum includes about 700 thousand works of painting and sculpture, graphics, applied art, artistic photography, as well as monuments of archeology and numismatics.

320 years ago (1698) Emperor Peter I established a tax on beards.

Soon after his return from his first trip to Europe, Peter I signed a decree ordering "shaving beards and mustaches for people of any rank," except for priests, and for those who did not want to do so, take a fee.

Four categories of duty were established: from courtiers, city nobles and officials they took 600 rubles a year, from merchants - 100 rubles, from townspeople - 60 rubles, from servants, coachmen and "all ranks of Moscow residents" - 30 rubles ... It was decided not to levy a tax from the peasants, but each time they entered the city they were charged 1 kopeck "from their beard".

The duty on beards had been imposed for over 20 years and was abolished in 1722.

539 years ago (1479) the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated.

The first stone cathedral on the site of the present one was built in the XIV century during the reign of Ivan I. It stood for about 150 years. The cathedral was badly dilapidated and "already threatened with destruction, its vaults were already reinforced, supported by thick trees."

The new temple was erected in 1475-1479 by the order of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III and designed by the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti.

For several centuries, the most important events in the life of the country took place in the Assumption Cathedral. Here they supplied grand dukes, crowned kingdoms, crowned emperors, and also elevated to the rank of bishops, metropolitans and patriarchs, and announced state acts. In the XIV-XVII centuries, the cathedral was the burial vault of the heads of the Russian Church - the metropolitans and patriarchs.

After the October Revolution, the Assumption Cathedral was turned into a museum. Since 1991, divine services have been resumed in the cathedral. They are held on major church holidays.

74 years ago (1944) the Slovak National Uprising began

The armed action of the people of Slovakia against the German fascist invaders and the regime of Josef Tiso who collaborated with them was prepared by the country's Communist Party and the Slovak National Council. Colonel Jan Golian led the rebels.

The mutiny covered almost the entire central and part of Eastern Slovakia. Despite the superiority of the Nazi troops, the uprising continued until October 27, 1944. The partisan detachments continued to fight until the complete liberation of Slovakia by Soviet troops.

133 years ago (1885) German inventor Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motorcycle.

It was a structure with a wooden chassis on two large spoked wheels and two small rollers on the sides to maintain balance. The steering wheel, gear lever and gears of the motorcycle were metal. The structure weighed 90 kilograms and developed a speed of 6 to 12 kilometers per hour. Later, Gottlieb Daimler and his colleague Wilhelm Maybach founded a motorcycle company.