What Happened on August 29, 1988

• 45th Venice Film Festival: "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" directed by Ermanno Olmi wins Golden Lion
• Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets a Guinness record for tap dancing
• USSR launches Soyuz TM-6 including Valery Polyakav, Vladimir Lyakhov and first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand to station Mir

• Zooey Zephyr, American transgender politician in Montana House of Representatives, born in Billings, Montana

Holidays: Late Summer Bank Holiday (United Kingdom)

• #1 Song: Monkey - George Michael
• #1 Song: The Only Way Is Up - Yazz & The Plastic Population