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Saturday, August 29, 2026
Saturday, August 29, 2026 falls on a Saturday. It is day 241 of the year, ISO week 35, in Q3.
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Saturday, August 29
August 29, 2026 is day 241 of 365, ISO week 35, in Q3. The moon is Full Moon and the zodiac sign is Virgo.
Day of year241
ISO week35
QuarterQ3
Days left124
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Full Moon
- Lunar age
- 16.2 days
- Illumination
- 98%
- Season
- Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Virgo
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August 29
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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 briefSaturday, August 29, 2026 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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James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
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