Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 29
- 1526 - Suleiman the Magnificent defeated and killed the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács.
- 1786 - Small farmers started Shays' Rebellion in Western Massachusetts over high debt and tax burdens.
- 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1982 - Meitnerium, an artificial chemical element with the atomic number 109, was first synthesized in Germany.