The Venice International Film Festival will open.

International Day Against Nuclear Tests.

Commemorative date of the UN, established by the resolution of the General Assembly on December 2, 2009. The Republic of Kazakhstan took the initiative to adopt the resolution.

On August 29, 1991, by decree of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site was closed. It was created in 1947 by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the region of the Irtysh River, 170 kilometers from Semipalatinsk. Two years later, the first nuclear weapon test took place at the test site.

From 1949 to 1989, about 460 nuclear tests were carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. In total, since 1945, about 2 thousand nuclear bombs have been tested in the world.

The Venice International Film Festival will open.

It will be held on the island of Lido for the 75th time. 22 films will compete for the main prize of this oldest film festival - "Golden Lion". The festival will run until September 8th.

The Spanish city of Bunyol will host the famous Tomatina festival (also known as the Battle of the Tomatoes)

It takes place in the last week of August.

The tradition originated in 1945, when at the end of summer holiday a group of young people staged a comic brawl, throwing tomatoes at each other. The police dispersed them and forced them to pay for the spoiled vegetables, but exactly a year later they gathered there with their tomatoes. Very soon the festival became a citywide one, and in 2002 it was awarded international status.

69 years ago (1949), the first Soviet atomic bomb was tested at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

The first Soviet atomic bomb RDS-1 was created at KB-11 (now the Russian Federal Nuclear Center) under the leadership of Igor Kurchatov and Yuli Khariton. Its mass was 4.7 tons, diameter - 1.5 meters and length - 3.3 meters.

For the successful development and testing of the atomic bomb, by a closed decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 29, 1949, orders and medals were awarded to a large group of leading researchers, designers, technologists, and the direct developers of the nuclear charge were awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

74 years ago (1944), during the Great Patriotic War, the Belarusian strategic offensive operation "Bagration" ended.

The plan of the operation, which became one of the largest in the entire history of the world, began to be developed in April 1944. Its plan was to crush the flanks of the German Army Group Center and encircle its main forces east of Minsk.

During the operation, which was carried out from June 23 to August 29, 1944, the troops of the 1st Baltic, 3rd, 2nd and 1st Belorussian fronts, with the support of the Dnieper military flotilla, liberated Belarus, part of the territories of Lithuania and Latvia, withdrew to the territory of Poland and to the borders of East Prussia. In order to resist the Soviet troops, the German fascist enemy command transferred a significant part of its forces to Belarus from the western front. This facilitated the allied offensive in France.

80 years ago (1938), correspondence higher education was introduced in the USSR.

The system of correspondence education began to form in our country in 1919, when the 8th Congress of the Communist Party decided to provide state assistance to the self-education and self-development of workers and peasants. In the 1920s, they began to publish special literature for self-education (School at Home, People's University at Home, Working College at Home, Study Itself, etc.). Courses with a correspondence system of education began to open, and also correspondence departments were opened at some Moscow universities (Moscow State University, the K. A. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, etc.). By the beginning of the 1930s, more than 350 thousand people were studying in higher and secondary educational institutions of the correspondence education system, the Central Institute of Distance Education and a number of specialized correspondence institutes were formed.

On August 29, 1938, the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On higher correspondence education" established a list of specialties for the correspondence education system, and also created a network of independent correspondence universities. The course system of training was introduced and the mandatory passing of all exams and tests. Additional paid vacations at the place of work were established for part-time students. A year later, the Regulation on the correspondence postgraduate study was approved.

120 years ago (1898) the Museum of Fine Arts named after Alexander III (now the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin) was founded in Moscow.

Its creation in 1893 was initiated by the Honored Professor of Moscow State University, Doctor of Roman Literature and art historian Ivan Tsvetaev. The museum is based on the collection of the Cabinet of Fine Arts and Antiquities of the University.

On June 13, 1912, the grand opening of the museum took place, which was attended by Emperor Nicholas II and the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.

In 1932, the Museum of Fine Arts was renamed the State Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1937 it was named after A.S. Pushkin.

Currently, the building complex of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin includes the Main Building, the Museum of Private Collections, the Gallery of Art of the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th-20th centuries, and the Museion Children's Center. There are also the Tsvetaev Educational Museum and the Memorial Apartment of Svyatoslav Richter as departments. The collection of the museum includes about 700 thousand works of painting and sculpture, graphics, applied art, artistic photography, as well as monuments of archeology and numismatics.

320 years ago (1698) Emperor Peter I established a tax on beards.

Soon after his return from his first trip to Europe, Peter I signed a decree ordering "shaving beards and mustaches for people of any rank," except for priests, and for those who did not want to do so, take a fee.

Four categories of duty were established: from courtiers, city nobles and officials they took 600 rubles a year, from merchants - 100 rubles, from townspeople - 60 rubles, from servants, coachmen and "all ranks of Moscow residents" - 30 rubles each ... It was decided not to levy a tax from the peasants, but each time they entered the city they were charged 1 kopeck "from the beard."

The duty on beards had been imposed for over 20 years and was abolished in 1722.

539 years ago (1479) the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated.

The first stone cathedral on the site of the present one was built in the XIV century during the reign of Ivan I. It stood for about 150 years. The cathedral was badly dilapidated and "already threatened with destruction, its vaults were already reinforced, supported by thick trees."

The new temple was erected in 1475-1479 by the decree of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III and designed by the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti.

For several centuries, the most important events in the life of the country took place in the Assumption Cathedral. Here they supplied great princes, crowned kingdoms, crowned emperors, and also elevated to the rank of bishops, metropolitans and patriarchs, and announced state acts. In the XIV-XVII centuries, the cathedral was the burial vault of the heads of the Russian Church - the metropolitans and patriarchs.

After the October Revolution, the Assumption Cathedral was turned into a museum. Since 1991, divine services have been resumed in the cathedral. They are held on major church holidays.

74 years ago (1944) the Slovak National Uprising began

The armed action of the people of Slovakia against the German fascist invaders and the regime of Josef Tiso who collaborated with them was prepared by the country's Communist Party and the Slovak National Council. Colonel Jan Golian led the rebels.

The revolt covered almost all of Central and part of Eastern Slovakia. Despite the superiority of the Nazi troops, the uprising continued until October 27, 1944. Partisan detachments continued to fight until the complete liberation of Slovakia by Soviet troops.

133 years ago (1885) German inventor Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motorcycle.

It was a structure with a wooden chassis on two large spoked wheels and two small rollers on the sides to maintain balance. The steering wheel, gear lever and gears of the motorcycle were metal. The structure weighed 90 kilograms and developed a speed of 6 to 12 kilometers per hour. Later, Gottlieb Daimler and his colleague Wilhelm Maybach founded a motorcycle company.

In 1689, the first Russian trade and diplomatic agreement with China was signed in the city of Nerchinsk on the Shilka River.

Russia had to abandon the Amur Territory: "to tear down to the ground" the Russian fortress Albazin, which became the cause of the conflict, and to transfer the lands of the Albazin Voivodeship to China.

These lands were conquered by the Cossack chieftains with a handful of "free hunters" since 1620: Vasily Poyarkov discovered the Amur River, the prospector Erofei Khabarov conquered the Amur lands. The Russians founded Nerchinsk, a base for campaigns on the Amur.

And the Yenisei governor Afanasy Pashkov penetrated into the Amur basin from the side of Transbaikalia. In the 19th century, Russia regained all these lands.

On August 29, 1831, the white autograph of Pushkin's "Tales of Tsar Saltan, of his glorious and mighty hero, Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the beautiful princess Swan" was dated.

Pushkin stylized the title under the title of popular short stories, since at that time the romantic fashion for folklore began in Russia. Pushkin wrote "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", competing with Vasily Zhukovsky in poetry.

Gogol spoke of Pushkin's poetic experiments in the following way: "Russian folk tales are not like Ruslan and Lyudmila, but completely Russian ... Incredible charm."

In 1842, the Opium War, which lasted for 3 years, ended with the conclusion of the Nanking Treaty between Great Britain and China.

The British, in the absence of another good profitable product, focused on the import of Indian opium into China, which not only harmed the health of the population, but also undermined the Chinese economy.

In 1839, the opium trade in China was banned and, by order of the emperor, about a ton of drugs belonging to the British were destroyed. London immediately declared war on China and won it.

China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain, opened 5 ports for its ships and paid $ 23 million in indemnity.

On August 29, 1870, 15-year-old Arthur Rimbaud ran away from home.

Without money or a ticket, I got on a train to Paris. Halfway through, he was detained and placed in prison, from which the future poet was rescued by the teacher Georges Izambard. The fugitive was returned home.

In October of the same year, he fled again; it was returned again. In February 1871 he escaped for the third time. Reached Paris; but in March, unable to withstand the hungry life, he returned himself. In September of the same year he was invited to Paris by Paul Verlaine. The fourth escape attempt was final.

In 1885, one of the pioneers of motorism, Gottlieb Daimler, received a German motorcycle patent.

The first "motorbike" weighing about 70 kg was equipped with a single-cylinder internal combustion engine with a capacity of 0.5 liters. sec., which made it possible to reach speeds of up to 12 km / h. The pioneer of motorcycle riding was Paul Daimler, who after a couple of months covered a distance of 10 km on his father's carriage.

The designer himself did not particularly count on the commercial success of the motorcycle and, rather, saw in it a kind of apparatus for testing new models of gasoline engines.

On the same day in 1991, the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan was closed.

It was created by the decision of the Soviet government on August 21, 1947 and closed by the decree of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev exactly 40 years after the first explosion.

On August 29, 1949, at 7 o'clock in the morning, the first atomic bomb in the USSR was detonated at the test site. On August 12, 1953, a thermonuclear device was tested here for the first time in the world, and on November 22, 1955, a hydrogen bomb was tested.

Until 1963, about 60 air, ground and underground explosions were made 120 kilometers from Semipalatinsk. Tests were carried out up to 1989; there were about 470 of them. The total power of the exploded charges was 2.5 thousand times higher than the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

In 1995, the last nuclear device was destroyed at the test site, and in the summer of 2000, the last adit in which the tests were carried out was blown up.

375 years ago, in 1632, the great English philosopher was born, whose ideas formed the basis for the formation of the current liberal democracy - John Locke.

In 1690 he published two treatises On Government. Locke first defined the relationship between rulers and subordinates as a "social contract" in which both parties assume obligations.

Citizens - to obey the reasonable orders of the rulers and not to violate the laws arising from natural law, and the rulers - to protect the rights of citizens transferred to them by agreement.

Locke denied absolutism and did not recognize the divine rights of the monarch. John Locke also owns the treatise "Thoughts on Education", which had a tremendous impact on world pedagogy, and many other important works.

There was a knock on his door with the question, "Does a painter of portraits live here?" - he answered with dignity: "The artist lives here." Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780.

He taught: "Every line has a tendency to be not flat, but convex." He argued: "In every head, the first thing to do is to make the eyes speak."

He was angry: “Damn portraits! They distract me from important things. " He considered himself a historical painter. His painting "The Vow of Louis XIII" brought him a resounding success.

A great portrait painter - he never flattered his models. Among them are Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Baroness Rothschild.

With his death, the era of classicism ended.

"Only imaginary castles are suitable for life," said the Belgian poet, playwright and philosopher Maurice Maeterlinck, born on the same day in 1862, exactly 145 years ago.

He was called an idealist, a symbolist, a Belgian Shakespeare and a brilliant mystic. His work is "the drama of silence, hints and omissions." He called himself a poet and claimed that all his dramas were "written in verse, and only printed like prose."

Its main themes are death, the meaning of human life, the place and role of man on earth. His masterpiece is the philosophical parable play The Blue Bird, first staged by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater.

In 1915, the future screen star Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm.

For the role of Joan of Arc, she was almost canonized. For her love for Roberto Rossellini, she was almost crucified. And she was neither a saint nor a sinner. She was just a woman who had been looking for love all her life and was not afraid to pay the bills.

She was a wonderful actress. She could not think of herself outside of theater and cinema, choked without roles, yearned when, due to pregnancies or Rossellini's whims, she was forced not to work.

She even agreed to roles in third-rate films, which is a strange thing! - ennobled herself so much that critics treated them more leniently than they deserved.

And she turned good films into masterpieces. She starred in a huge number of films, played in many performances, was nominated seven times for an Oscar and two times - for "Casablanca" and "Autumn Sonata" - she received it.

“Nature created him as a genius. If he decided to become a locksmith, he would be a genius locksmith. But he chose music, ”one of his friends said about Charlie Parker.

Charlie Parker, an outstanding American jazz musician and founder of the bebop style, was born on the same day in 1920 in the black ghetto of the gangster city of Kansas City. The first used alto saxophone was given to him by his mother. Later they will say that he was born with him.

At 15, Charlie married for the first time, dropped out of school and became a professional musician. His world is the smoky nightclubs in which modern jazz was born. Later they will say that it was he who created it.

Parker died at 34, surviving loneliness, drugs and worldwide fame. He was called - "birdie", the king of the bebop style, the immortal personality in the world of jazz, the genius of improvisation, the great saxophonist.

385 years ago, on August 29, 1632, the great English philosopher was born, whose ideas formed the basis for the formation of the current liberal democracy - John Locke.

In 1690 he published two treatises On Government. Locke first defined the relationship between rulers and subordinates as a "social contract" in which both parties assume obligations. Citizens - to obey the reasonable orders of the rulers and not to violate the laws arising from natural law, and the rulers - to protect the rights of citizens transferred to them by agreement.

On August 29, 1689, the first Russian trade and diplomatic agreement with China was signed in the city of Nerchinsk on the Shilka River. Russia had to abandon the Amur Territory: "to tear down to the ground" the Russian fortress Albazin, which became the cause of the conflict, and to transfer the lands of the Albazin Voivodeship to China. These lands were conquered by the Cossack chieftains with a handful of "free hunters" since 1620: Vasily Poyarkov discovered the Amur River, the prospector Erofei Khabarov conquered the Amur lands.

The Russians founded Nerchinsk, a base for campaigns on the Amur. And the Yenisei governor Afanasy Pashkov penetrated into the Amur basin from the side of Transbaikalia. In the 19th century, Russia regained all these lands.

He taught: "Every line has a tendency to be not flat, but convex." He argued: "In every head, the first thing to do is to make the eyes speak." He was angry: “Damn portraits! They distract me from important things. " He considered himself a historical painter. His painting "The Vow of Louis XIII" brought him a resounding success.

A great portrait painter - he never flattered his models. Among them are Niccolo Paganini, Franz Liszt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Baroness Rothschild.

With his death, the era of classicism ended.

On August 29, 1831, the white autograph of Pushkin's "Tales of Tsar Saltan, of his glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the beautiful princess Swan" was dated.

Pushkin stylized the title under the title of popular novels, since in Russia at that time the romantic fashion for folklore began. Pushkin wrote "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", competing with Vasily Zhukovsky in poetry. Gogol spoke of Pushkin's poetic experiments in the following way: "Russian folk tales are not like Ruslan and Lyudmila, but completely Russian ... Incredible charm."

On August 29, 1842, the Opium War, which lasted for 3 years, ended with the conclusion of the Nanking Treaty between Great Britain and China. The British, in the absence of another good profitable product, focused on the import of Indian opium into China, which not only harmed the health of the population, but also undermined the Chinese economy. In 1839, the opium trade in China was banned and, by order of the emperor, about a ton of drugs belonging to the British were destroyed.

London immediately declared war on China and won it. China ceded Hong Kong to Great Britain, opened 5 ports for its ships and paid $ 23 million in indemnity.

"Only imaginary castles are suitable for life," said the Belgian poet, playwright and philosopher Maurice Maeterlinck, born on August 29, 1862, exactly 155 years ago. He was called an idealist, a symbolist, a Belgian Shakespeare and a brilliant mystic. His work is "the drama of silence, hints and omissions"

He called himself a poet and claimed that all his dramas were "written in verse, and only printed like prose." Its main themes are death, the meaning of human life, the place and role of man on earth. His masterpiece is the philosophical parable play The Blue Bird, first staged by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater.

On August 29, 1870, 15-year-old Arthur Rimbaud ran away from home. Without money or a ticket, I got on a train to Paris. Halfway through, he was detained and placed in prison, from which the future poet was rescued by the teacher Georges Izambard. The fugitive was returned home. In October of the same year, he fled again; it was returned again.

In February 1871 he escaped for the third time. Reached Paris; but in March, unable to withstand the hungry life, he returned himself. In September of the same year he was invited to Paris by Paul Verlaine. The fourth escape attempt was final.

On August 29, 1885, one of the pioneers of motorism, Gottlieb Daimler, received a German patent for a motorcycle.

The first "motorbike" weighing about 70 kg was equipped with a single-cylinder internal combustion engine with a capacity of 0.5 liters. sec., which made it possible to reach speeds of up to 12 km / h. The pioneer of motorcycle riding was Paul Daimler, who after a couple of months covered a distance of 10 km on his father's carriage. The designer himself did not particularly count on the commercial success of the motorcycle and, rather, saw in it a kind of apparatus for testing new models of gasoline engines.

“Nature created him as a genius. If he decided to become a locksmith, he would be a genius locksmith. But he chose music, ”one of his friends said about Charlie Parker.
Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920 in the black ghetto of the gangster city of Kansas City. The first used alto saxophone was given to him by his mother. Later they will say that he was born with him.

In 1915, the future screen star Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm.

For the role of Joan of Arc, she was almost canonized. For her love for Roberto Rossellini, she was almost crucified. And she was neither a saint nor a sinner. She was just a woman who had been looking for love all her life and was not afraid to pay the bills.

She was a wonderful actress. She could not think of herself outside of theater and cinema, choked without roles, yearned when, due to pregnancies or Rossellini's whims, she was forced not to work. She even agreed to roles in third-rate films, which is a strange thing! - ennobled herself so much that critics treated them more leniently than they deserved. And she turned good films into masterpieces. She starred in a huge number of films, played in many performances, was nominated for an Oscar seven times and twice - for Casablanca and Autumn Sonata - she received it.

On August 29, 1982, the great Ingrid passed away. She died in London on the day of her 67th birthday ...

On August 27, 1990, Stevie Rae Vaughan, an American blues rock guitarist, tragically passed away. The musician died along with three members of Eric Clapton's band when the helicopter on which they were flying crashed into a hill in the Wisconsin mountains in the fog.

With his amazing filigree guitar technique, Stevie Vaughan pioneered the renaissance of the blues in the 80s. He created a unique guitar style and sound, unlike any other famous guitarist, regardless of the genre of performance. Vaughan bridged the divide between blues and rock, something no other musician has been able to do since the late 1960s. For seven years, Stevie was the guitarist he looked up to. His concerts were sold out, his albums went gold. The tragic death gave particular mystical significance to his impact on American rock and roll and blues.

In 1995, the last nuclear device was destroyed at the test site, and in the summer of 2000, the last adit in which the tests were carried out was blown up.

August 29 is the 241st day of the year, according to the Gregorian calendar. There are only 124 days left until the New Year 2019. What significant events in different years, the site will tell.

August 29th in history

V 1929 The German airship "Graf Zeppelin" completed its first round the world voyage. The unique vehicle was built in Germany and named after the German pioneer of rigid airships, Count Zeppelin.

V 1938 year, in all higher educational institutions of the USSR, the correspondence form of education was first introduced. Students were given the opportunity to work and study at the same time.

V 1954 San Francisco International Airport was opened in the USA. It is currently the second largest air harbor in the US state of California.

V 1966 the legendary four "The Beatles" gave their last concert. The band's final show took place in San Francisco.

V 1999 year, an important sporting event took place in the East of Ukraine - in Donetsk. In one of the largest regional centers of the country, a monument to Sergei Bubka, the six-time world champion in pole vaulting, was unveiled.

Holidays August 29

On August 29, Orthodox believers venerate two icons of the Mother of God - Theodorovskaya and the "Triumph of the Most Holy Theotokos" (Port Arthur).

The people celebrate, also called Not-Made-by-Hands or Nut.

Who was born on August 29:

1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish film actress, winner of three Oscars
1936 -, American politician, senator
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer, dancer, composer, "King of Pop"
1958 - Olga Zarubina, Russian Soviet singer and actress
1982 - Marina Aleksandrova, Russian film and theater actress

We also suggest that you familiarize yourself. Our ancestors always paid attention to the weather, the behavior of animals and birds, and, according to this, made plans for the future.