| 98071 | August 29 | Event | 1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey. |
| 98072 | August 29 | Event | 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island. |
| 98073 | August 29 | Event | 1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. |
| 98074 | August 29 | Event | 1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge. |
| 98075 | August 29 | Event | 1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. |
| 98076 | August 29 | Event | 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. |
| 98077 | August 29 | Event | 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War. |
| 98078 | August 29 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. |
| 98079 | August 29 | Event | 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway. |
| 98080 | August 29 | Event | 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). |
| 98081 | August 29 | Event | 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. |
| 98082 | August 29 | Event | 1895 – Rugby league is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield. |
| 98083 | August 29 | Event | 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded. |
| 98084 | August 29 | Event | 1903 – The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched. |
| 98085 | August 29 | Event | 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. |
| 98086 | August 29 | Event | 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. |
| 98087 | August 29 | Event | 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. |
| 98088 | August 29 | Event | 1914 – Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne. |
| 98089 | August 29 | Event | 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. |
| 98090 | August 29 | Event | 1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act. |
| 98091 | August 29 | Event | 1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. |
| 98092 | August 29 | Event | 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City. |
| 98093 | August 29 | Event | 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. |
| 98094 | August 29 | Event | 1941 – Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union. |
| 98095 | August 29 | Event | 1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy Germany dissolves the Danish government. |
| 98096 | August 29 | Event | 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. |
| 98097 | August 29 | Event | 1946 – USS Nevada is decommissioned. |
| 98098 | August 29 | Event | 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. |
| 98099 | August 29 | Event | 1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there. |
| 98100 | August 29 | Event | 1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |