On this day...

August 29: Feast day for the Beheading of St. John the Baptist(Gregorian calendar) 1526 – Ottoman–Hungarian Wars: Louis II, the lastJagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia, died after his army was defeated by Ottoman forces led bySuleiman the Magnificent at the Battle of Mohács. 1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discoveredelectromagnetic induction, leading to the formation ofFaraday's law of induction. 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. 1930 – The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern. 1984 – Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and single largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.