On August 29

Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.

Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.

Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.

Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.

Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.

The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.

Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.

Due to price increases on macaroni products, rioting occurred in the Little Italy area of Providence, Rhode Island.

The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.

Slava, the last of five Borodino-class battleships, was launched by the Imperial Russian Navy.

Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).

Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.

Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.

Angered by high tax burdens and disfranchisement, farmers in western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays began an armed uprising against the U.S. federal government.

France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.

Hundred 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.