Tuesday, August 29, 2023

History for August 29

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Locke 1632
  • 1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
  • 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
  • 1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.
  • 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
  • 1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.

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