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August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 124 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
• 1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope, the last man to do so without being a cardinal first.
• 1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
• 1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
• 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
• 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
• 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
• 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
• 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
• 1533 – Spaniard Francisco Pizarro executes Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empire.
• 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
• 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
• 1758 – The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
• 1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
• 1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
• 1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
• 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
• 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
• 1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
• 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
• 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
• 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
• 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• 1903 – The Slava, the last of the five Template:Sclass-s, is launched.
• 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
• 1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
• 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
• 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
• 1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
• 1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
• 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
• 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
• 1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
• 1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
• 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
• 1946 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is decommissioned.
• 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• 1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
• 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
• 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
• 1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
• 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
• 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
• 1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
• 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
• 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
• 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
• 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
• 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
• 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

Births

• 1434 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop, poet, and diplomat (d. 1472)
• 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician (d. 1683)
• 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman (d. 1701)
• 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician (d. 1704)
• 1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
• 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author (d. 1803)
• 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
• 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. 1797)
• 1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
• 1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
• 1777 – Hyacinth, Chuvash founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
• 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
• 1792 – Charles Grandison Finney, revivalist leader and preacher in the Second Great Awakening (d. 1875)
• 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
• 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
• 1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
• 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA (d. 1888)
• 1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907)
• 1843 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)
• 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
• 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
• 1862 – Andrew Fisher, Australian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
• 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
• 1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist and educator (d. 1962)
• 1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician, 6th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
• 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)
• 1880 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (d. 1998)
• 1881 – Albert Henderson, Canadian footballer (d. 1947)
• 1887 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, First Chief Minisyer of Gujarat(India),(d.1978)
• 1891 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (d. 1955)
• 1898 – Preston Sturges, American director and producer (d. 1959)
• 1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
• 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1905 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (d. 1941)
• 1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
• 1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
• 1913 – K. Jeyakody, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
• 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
• 1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
• 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
• 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
• 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
• 1922 – John Edward Williams, American author (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English director
• 1923 – Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, English broadcasting executive (d. 2006)
• 1924 – María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress
• 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
• 1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and educator
• 1926 – Betty Lynn, American actress
• 1928 – Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Herbert Meier, Swiss writer and translator
• 1929 – Thom Gunn, English-American poet (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
• 1931 – Lise Payette, Canadian politician, writer, and columnist
• 1932 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (d. 1996)
• 1933 – Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
• 1934 – John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
• 1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
• 1935 – William Friedkin, American director
• 1935 – László Garai, Hungarian scientist and psychologist
• 1936 – John McCain, American politician
• 1937 – James Florio, American politician
• 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
• 1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer
• 1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower
• 1939 – Joel Schumacher, American director
• 1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary
• 1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
• 1941 – Robin Leach, English television host
• 1942 – James Glennon, American scientist
• 1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)
• 1943 – Dick Halligan, American musician and composer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1945 – Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter, musician, and composer
• 1945 – Wyomia Tyus, American runner
• 1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper
• 1946 – Demetris Christofias, Greek-Cypriot politician, and 6th President of Cyprus
• 1947 – Temple Grandin, American doctor and activist
• 1947 – James Hunt, English Grand Prix driver and 1976 World Drivers' Champion (d. 1993)
• 1949 – Werner Kaiser, German footballer
• 1950 – Michael (Dahulich), American bishop
• 1950 – Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
• 1950 – Frank Henenlotter, American director
• 1950 – Dave Reichert, American politician
• 1951 – Geoff Whitehorn, English guitarist and singer-songwriter (Crawler and Procol Harum)
• 1952 – Karen Hesse, American author
• 1952 – Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Radiators)
• 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
• 1953 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
• 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American novelist
• 1955 – Diamanda Galás, American singer, pianist, and composer
• 1955 – Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
• 1955 – Jack Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff, 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1956 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers) (d. 1993)
• 1956 – Mark Morris, American choreographer
• 1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey
• 1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and writer
• 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (d. 2009)
• 1959 – Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
• 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian actor
• 1959 – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fairground Attraction)
• 1959 – Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
• 1959 – Stephen Wolfram, English physicist and mathematician
• 1960 – Todd English, American chef
• 1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, composer, and producer (Planet X, CAB, Ring of Fire, and Seven the Hardway)
• 1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
• 1961 – Rodney McCray, American basketball player
• 1962 – Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
• 1962 – Carl Banks, American football player
• 1962 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, and singer
• 1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer (Cocteau Twins)
• 1964 – Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
• 1965 – Will Perdue, American basketball player
• 1965 – Dina Spybey, American actress
• 1966 – Jörn Großkopf, German footballer
• 1967 – Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
• 1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
• 1969 – Joe Swail, Irish snooker player
• 1971 – Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1971 – Alex Griffin, English bass player (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
• 1971 – Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1972 – Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
• 1973 – Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
• 1973 – Adam Sessler, American television host
• 1973 – Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist best known as a co-founder of British alternative rock band Anathema
• 1974 – Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
• 1975 – Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
• 1975 – Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
• 1975 – Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matchbox 20 and The New Left)
• 1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
• 1976 – Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
• 1976 – Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
• 1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Devean George, American basketball player
• 1977 – John Hensley, American actor
• 1977 – John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player
• 1977 – Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
• 1977 – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
• 1977 – Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
• 1977 – Jo Weil, German actor
• 1978 – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
• 1979 – Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
• 1979 – Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
• 1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player (Simple Plan and Reset)
• 1980 – Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
• 1980 – Chris Simms, American football player
• 1980 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 – David West, American basketball player
• 1981 – Lanny Barbie, Canadian porn actress
• 1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
• 1981 – Dennis Joseph O'Neil, Korean-American actor
• 1981 – Jay Ryan, New Zealand actor
• 1982 – Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
• 1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
• 1984 – Alexander Hug, German rugby player
• 1985 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
• 1985 – Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
• 1986 – Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
• 1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
• 1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
• 1989 – Aleksandr Bebikh, Russian footballer
• 1989 – Karol Castillo, Peruvian model (d. 2013)
• 1990 – Nicole Anderson, American actress
• 1990 – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
• 1990 – Julia Vlassov, American figure skater
• 1991 – Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
• 1991 – Anikó Kovacsics, Hungarian handball player
• 1991 – Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
• 1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1993 – Lucas Cruikshank, American actor
• 1994 – Courtney Stodden, American television personality

Deaths

• 886 – Basil I, Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
• 979 – Abu Taghlib, Emir of Mosul
• 1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
• 1123 – Eystein I of Norway (b. 1088)
• 1395 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (b. 1349)
• 1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
• 1526 – Louis II of Hungary (b. 1506)
• 1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
• 1533 – Atahualpa, sovereign emperor (b. 1497)
• 1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. 1516)
• 1543 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, German mother of Anne of Cleves (b. 1491)
• 1657 – John Lilburne, English activist (b. 1614)
• 1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
• 1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
• 1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
• 1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
• 1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
• 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author (b. 1778)
• 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1846)
• 1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
• 1891 – Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian (b. 1809)
• 1904 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1917 – George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
• 1931 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Astrid of Sweden (b. 1905)
• 1945 – Constantin Tănase, Romanian revue actor and stage writer (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian general (b. 1890)
• 1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
• 1951 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Marjorie Flack, American children's author (b. 1897)
• 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (b. 1881)
• 1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American convicted murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, and philosopher (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1979 – Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author (b. 1890)
• 1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (b. 1890)
• 1985 – Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
• 1987 – Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer, and actor (b. 1914)
• 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Teddy Turner, English comedian and actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Frank Perry, American director (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 2001 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (b. 1952)
• 2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Michel Constantin, French actor (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Richard Jewell, American police officer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
• 2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, English comedian, writer, and producer (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Said Aburish, Palestinian journalist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, English academic and author (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Les Moss, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Sergei Ovchinnikov, Russian volleyball coach (b. 1969)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Beheading of St. John the Baptist
  • John Bunyan (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Sabina
  • August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• International Day against Nuclear Tests (international)
• Miners' Day (Ukraine)
• Slovak National Uprising Anniversary (Slovakia)
• Telugu Language Day (India)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

• Days of the year
• August