This Day in History - TDIH

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August 29

1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

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.

1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.

1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.