Friday, August 29, 2025

History for August 29

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
  • 1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
  • 1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.
  • 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
  • 1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.
  • 1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.

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