Today in History - 29 August, 2025

Notable Events, Birthdays & Anniversaries

29 August 2025

Events

• 1842
  Treaty of Nanking ends the First Opium War between UK & China.
• 1949
  Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.
• 2005
  Katrina flooding worsens as levees break in New Orleans.

Birthdays

• 1632
  John Locke — English philosopher.
• 1958
  Michael Jackson — King of Pop.

Death Anniversaries

• 1533
  Atahualpa — last Inca Emperor.