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- 1850
- Newcastle station opens on the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- 1871
- The remaining formerly feudal provinces of Japan are reorganized into prefectures.
- 1966
- In Hudson, Wisconsin, the St. Croix County Courthouse moves next door into the former Hudson Star Observer offices.
- 1998
- Jeongseok Airfield opens near Seogwipo on Jeju Island in South Korea.
- 2005
- Hurricane Katrina destroys the I-10 Twin Span Bridge over Lake Pontchartrain and inundates Lakeland Medical Pavilion in New Orleans, forcing its closure.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 29, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 29 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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