What happend on 29th August

This is day of

Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, makes landfall in 2005, causing widespread devastation in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

2005

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall, leading to a major humanitarian crisis in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

1949

The Soviet Union conducts its first successful atomic bomb test, codenamed "First Lightning."

1842

The Treaty of Nanking is signed, ending the First Opium War between Great Britain and China.