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Thursday, August 29, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024 falls on a Thursday. It is day 242 of the year, ISO week 35, in Q3.
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Thursday, August 29
August 29, 2024 is day 242 of 366, ISO week 35, in Q3. The moon is Waning Crescent and the zodiac sign is Virgo.
Day of year242
ISO week35
QuarterQ3
Days left124
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waning Crescent
- Lunar age
- 24.4 days
- Illumination
- 27%
- Season
- Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Virgo
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2024-08-29
Today's Celebrations
August 29
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Adelphus of Metz
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Beheading of St. John the Baptist
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Eadwold of Cerne
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Euphrasia Eluvathingal (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
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John Bunyan (Episcopal Church)
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Sabina
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Vitalis, Sator and Repositus
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August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Local briefThursday, August 29, 2024 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2016: Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to August 29.
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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.
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Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcaster (born 1951)
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Ed Asner, American actor (born 1929)
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Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae producer (born 1936)
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Jacques Rogge, Belgian orthopedic surgeon, Olympic sailor and the 8th President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1942)
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James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
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The Israel Defence Forces carry out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers. (The Guardian)
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Israel–Hezbollah conflict IDF launches air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Kafr Kila and Yarine in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
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Hezbollah launches four rocket and drone strikes on the outpost of the IDF 210th Golan Division in Nafah, Golan Heights. (Al Jazeera)
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