Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 29
August 29: Feast day for the Beheading of St. John the Forerunner (Eastern Christianity)
- 1526: Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire defeated and killed the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács.
- 1786: Disgruntled farmers in Western Massachusetts, United States, angered by high tax burdens and disenfranchisement, started the Shays Rebellion.
- 1907: The Quebec Bridge in Quebec City, Canada, collapsed during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1944: Slovak troops turned against the pro-Nazi regime of Jozef Tiso and the German Wehrmacht, starting the Slovak National Uprising.