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August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in Leap Year s), 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 .
- defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia .
- 1533 - 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.
- 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 Nazi s.
- 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 .
- 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 Assassin ated 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 1,604 and costing over 75 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 and writer (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 Prize 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, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1979 )
- 1905 - Dhyan Chand , Indian hockey player (d. 1979 )
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (d. 1982 )
- 1916 - George Montgomery , American actor (d. 2000 )
- 1917 - Isabel Sanford , American actress (d. 2004 )
- 1920 - Charlie Parker , American jazz saxophonist and composer (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 and land world speed record holder
- 1941 - Robin Leach , English television host
- 1946 - Bob Beamon , American jumper
- 1957 - Jerry Bailey , American thoroughbred racing jockey
- 1958 - Michael Jackson , American singer and songwriter
- 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 )
- 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello , American singer
- 1969 - Joe Swail , Northern Irish snooker player
- 1970 - Jacco Eltingh , Dutch tennis player
- 1971 - Carla Gugino , American actress
- 1976 - Stephen Carr , Irish footballer
- 1978 - Celestine Babayaro , Nigerian footballer
- 1979 - Chieu Luu , Canadian journalist
- 1980 - David Desrosiers , Canadian musician ( Simple Plan )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 1987 - Lee Marvin , American actor (b. 1924 )
- 1989 - Peter Scott , English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909 )
- 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
External links
August 28 - August 30 - July 29 - September 29 – Listing Of All Days
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