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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_29" title="August 29">August 29</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast</a> of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_of_John_the_Baptist" title="Beheading of John the Baptist">Beheading of John the Baptist</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1350" title="1350">1350</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>: Led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England" title="Edward III of England">King Edward III</a>, a fleet of 50 English ships captured at least 14 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" title="Kingdom of Castile">Castilian</a> vessels and sank several more at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Winchelsea" title="Battle of Winchelsea">Battle of Winchelsea</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1786" title="1786">1786</a> – Farmers in western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> angered by high tax burdens and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement" title="Disfranchisement">disfranchisement</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion" title="Shays' Rebellion">an armed uprising</a></b> led by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Shays" title="Daniel Shays">Daniel Shays</a></b> against the U.S. federal government.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1831" title="1831">1831</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday" title="Michael Faraday">Michael Faraday</a></b> first experimentally demonstrated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction" title="Electromagnetic induction">electromagnetic induction</a>, leading to the formulation of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_law_of_induction" title="Faraday's law of induction">law of induction named after him</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_343" title="Air France Flight 343">Air France Flight 343</a></b> crashed while attempting to land at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_S%C3%A9dar_Senghor_International_Airport" title="Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport">Yoff Airport</a>, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016" title="2016">2016</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Quanguo" title="Chen Quanguo">Chen Quanguo</a></b> became the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party_Committee_Secretary" title="Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary">Chinese Communist Party secretary</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, later overseeing the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps" title="Xinjiang internment camps">Xinjiang internment camps</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Taghlib" title="Abu Taghlib">Abu Taghlib</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 979); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Leveson-Gower,_Countess_Granville" title="Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville">Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1785); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Grove" title="Orval Grove">Orval Grove</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1919); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazi_Nazrul_Islam" title="Kazi Nazrul Islam">Kazi Nazrul Islam</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1976)</p>