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AUGUST 29
August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.
Events
- 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1189 - Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood
- 1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
- 1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer). The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
- 1475 - The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
- 1484 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected Pope Innocent VIII.
- 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
- 1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1533 - Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadores.
- 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
- 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
- 1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
- 1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War
- 1869 - The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
- 1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
- 1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
- 1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City.
- 1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
- 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
- 1922 - Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.
- 1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government.
- 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1952 - Premiere of John Cage's 4′33″ in Woodstock, New York.
- 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1966 - Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco, California.
- 1970 - First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the Boeing 747.
- 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- 1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
- 1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
- 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana (especially the Mississippi Gulf Coast) to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and costing over 115 billion dollars in damage.
Births
- 1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
- 1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
- 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
- 1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
- 1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
- 1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer (d. 1830)
- 1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
- 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
- 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d. 1894)
- 1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
- 1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
- 1844 - Edward Carpenter, English Socialist poet (d. 1929
- 1862 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
- 1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
- 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1898 - Preston Sturges, American screenwriter (d. 1959)
- 1904 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright
- 1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1923 - The Lord Attenborough, English film director
- 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
- 1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1936 - John McCain, American politician
- 1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
- 1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
- 1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1939 - William Friedkin, American film director
- 1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
- 1940 - Gary Gabelich, race car driver
- 1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
- 1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
- 1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
- 1957 - Jerry Bailey, American racing jockey
- 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer
- 1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic
- 1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
- 1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
- 1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, American chairman of the Special Olympics
- 1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
- 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, English singer (Cocteau Twins)
- 1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
- 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
- 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
- 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
- 1973 - Adam Sessler, TV show host
- 1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
- 1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
- 1977 - John O'Brien, American soccer player
- 1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
- 1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
- 1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
- 1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
- 1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian porn star
Deaths
- 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
- 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
- 1435 - Isabeau de Bavière, wife of Charles VI of France (b. 1371)
- 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
- 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
- 1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
- 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c.1516)
- 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter
- 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
- 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
- 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
- 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
- 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
- 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
- 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
- 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
- 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
- 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
- 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
- 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
- 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
- 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
- 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915), who sadly died on her birthday (see above)
- 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
- 2001 - Graham Strachan, Australian television presenter (b. 1952)
- 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
- 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
- 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
Fictional dates
External links
August 28 - August 30 - July 29 - September 29 – listing of all days
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