📜 This Day in History
August 29
1350Hundred Years' War: Led by King Edward III, a fleet of 50 English ships captured at least 14 Castilian vessels and sank several more at the Battle of Winchelsea.- 1831Michael Faraday first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.
- 1911The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.
- 1949The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
- 1991Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
- 2016Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.
