On This Day – 29 August

August 27, 2025

What happened on 29 August? From India’s constitutional blueprint and political realignments to space-age milestones—and worldwide turning points from the Opium Wars to rock and hurricane history—this day packs real impact. 🌏✨

On This Day – 29 August

🇮🇳 India Events

🏛️ 1947 – Constituent Assembly appoints Drafting Committee (chaired by B. R. Ambedkar)

India’s Constituent Assembly set up the Drafting Committee to prepare the Constitution—an institutional step that shaped the Republic’s foundations.

🏑 National Sports Day (Major Dhyan Chand’s birth anniversary)

Observed annually to honor hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand and to celebrate sport’s role in national life.

🛰️ 2009 – ISRO loses contact with Chandrayaan-1

India’s first lunar orbiter fell silent after 312 days in space; the mission had already completed most of its objectives.

🌄 Assam & Northeast India

🎂 1926 – Birth anniversary of Golap Borbora

Born in Golaghat, Golap Borbora later became Assam’s first non-Congress Chief Minister—an important marker in the state’s political history.

🌍 World Events

📜 1842 – Treaty of Nanjing ends the First Opium War

Great Britain and Qing China signed the treaty, reshaping trade and colonial dynamics in East Asia.

☢️ 1949 – USSR detonates its first atomic bomb (RDS-1)

The successful Soviet test ended the U.S. nuclear monopoly and transformed the Cold War balance.

🎸 1966 – The Beatles play their final official concert

Their last paid show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park closed the touring chapter of Beatlemania.

🌪️ 2005 – Hurricane Katrina strikes the U.S. Gulf Coast

Landfall near Buras, Louisiana, led to catastrophic flooding and one of America’s costliest natural disasters.

🎂 Birthdays

Indian Personalities

  • Major Dhyan Chand (1905) – Hockey legend, triple Olympic gold medallist.
  • Akkineni Nagarjuna (1959) – Prominent Indian film actor and producer.

International Personalities

  • Michael Jackson (1958) – Pop icon and influential entertainer.
  • Ingrid Bergman (1915) – Oscar-winning Swedish actress (also died on this date).
  • John Locke (1632) – Enlightenment philosopher of liberalism and empiricism.
  • Charlie Parker (1920) – Jazz saxophonist, pioneer of bebop.

✝️ Deaths

International Personalities

  • Ingrid Bergman (1982) – Swedish film legend, passed away on her 67th birthday.
  • Gene Wilder (2016) – Beloved American actor and comedian.
  • Brigham Young (1877) – Early leader of the Latter-day Saint movement.

💡 Did You Know?

The Beatles’ Candlestick Park concert lasted about 33 minutes—fans later relied on bootlegs and memories because the sound system and recording arrangements were minimal.

📝 Final Thoughts

29 August threads together India’s constitutional architecture and our first lunar orbiter—while the wider world remembers a colonial treaty, a nuclear turning point, a storm that reshaped a coastline, and the night the Beatles closed the stage. It’s a day of blueprints, breakthroughs, and big endings—perfect for AssamJobsGuide.com’s “On This Day” lens.

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