August 29 Holidays

International Day against Nuclear Tests was established by the UN General Assembly in 2009, marking August 29, 1991, when Kazakhstan closed the Soviet Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site — the date chosen to advocate for a nuclear test ban and highlight that more than 2,056 tests have been conducted worldwide since 1945. National Chop Suey Day celebrates the Chinese-American stir-fry dish whose origin is attributed to San Francisco’s Chinese immigrant community in the late 1890s — created to satisfy Anglo American customers with a familiar vegetable-and-meat format that bore little resemblance to any dish in China. According to Hoyle Day marks August 29, 1769, the death date of Edmond Hoyle, the English writer who standardized the rules of card games including whist and piquet — giving the English language the phrase “according to Hoyle” as a synonym for “by the rules.” Individual Rights Day was created to celebrate the constitutional and legal protections that guarantee individual freedoms against governmental overreach. 2,056 tests, a San Francisco restaurant, a card-game rulebook, and a constitutional guarantee.