Template:On this day/29 August

29 August:

• 1728 – The ceety o Nuuk in Greenland is foondit as the fort o Godt-Haab bi the ryal govrenor Claus Paarss.
• 1831 – Michael Faraday diskivers electromagnetic induction.
• 1930 – The last 36 remeenin indwallers o St Kilda are voluntarily evacuatit tae ither pairts o Scotland.
• 1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executit for plottin the assassination o Preses Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• 2005 – Hurricane Katrina (picturt) devastates muckle o the U.S. Gulf Coast frae Louisiana tae the Florida Panhandle, killin up tae 1,836 fowk an causin $125 billion in damage.

Ingrid Bergman (b. 1915, d. 1982) · John McCain (b. 1936) · Michael Jackson (b. 1958)