August 1949 in Asia

The RDS-1 (), also known as First Lightning (), was the first nuclear weapons test that was conducted by the Soviet Union. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m. Kazakhstan Time (decree time) (UTC+06:00), at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and yielded 22 kilotons of TNT.

train derailment in Japan

Bombing in Syria

6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Bingöl in eastern Turkey on August 17, 1949