August 29
August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (242nd in
leap years), with 124 days remaining.
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708 - Copper coins are minted in
Japan for the first time (Traditional
Japanese date: August 10, 708).
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1189 -
Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of
Bosnian statehood
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1261 -
Urban IV becomes
Pope, the last man to do so without being a
Cardinal first.
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1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or
Les Espagnols sur Mer). The English
naval fleet under King
Edward III defeats a
Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
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1475 - The
Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between
France and
England.
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1484 -
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected Pope Innocent VIII.
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1521 - The
Ottoman Turks capture
Nándorfehérvár, now known as
Belgrade.
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1526 -
Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by
Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last
Jagiellonian king of
Hungary and
Bohemia.
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1533 -
Inca emperor Atahualpa is
executed in
Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as
Conquistadores.
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1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture
Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
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1756 -
Frederick the Great attacks
Saxony, beginning the
Seven Years' War.
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1786 -
Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of
Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
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1831 -
Michael Faraday discovers
electromagnetic induction.
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1833 - The
United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
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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.
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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).
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1885 -
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first
motorcycle.
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1895 - The formation of the
Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel,
Huddersfield,
England.
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1896 -
Chop suey is invented in
New York City.
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1898 - The
Goodyear tire company is founded.
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1907 - The
Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
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1910 -
Japan changes
Korea's name to
Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
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1911 -
Ishi, considered the last
Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern
California.
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1922 - Turkish forces set fire to
Smyrna, in
Asia Minor.
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1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of
St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
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1943 -
German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government.
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1944 -
Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000
Slovak troops turn against the
Nazis.
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1949 -
Soviet atomic bomb project: The
Soviet Union tests its first
atomic bomb, known as
First Lightning or
Joe 1, at
Semipalatinsk,
Kazakhstan.
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1952 - Premiere of
John Cage's
4′33″ in
Woodstock, New York.
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1958 -
United States Air Force Academy opens in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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1966 - Last
Beatles concert, in
San Francisco, California.
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1970 - First flight of the
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the
Boeing 747.
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1982 - The synthetic
chemical element Meitnerium,
atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in
Darmstadt, Germany.
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1991 -
Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
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1995 -
NATO launches
Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
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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.
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1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the
GIA in the
Rais massacre,
Algeria.
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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.
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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.
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1619 -
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d.
1683)
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1628 -
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d.
1701)
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1632 -
John Locke, English philosopher (d.
1704)
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1725 -
Charles Townshend, English politician (d.
1767)
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1756 -
Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d.
1845)
* 1756 -
Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer (d.
1830)
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1777 -
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d.
1853)
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1780 -
Jean Ingres, French painter (d.
1867)
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1805 -
Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d.
1872)
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1809 -
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d.
1894)
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1810 -
Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d.
1884)
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1843 -
David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d.
1910)
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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)
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1871 -
Albert Lebrun, French politician (d.
1950)
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1876 -
Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d.
1958)
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1898 -
Preston Sturges, American screenwriter (d.
1959)
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1904 -
Werner Forssmann, German physician,
Nobel laureate (d.
1979)
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1905 -
Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d.
1979)
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1915 -
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d.
1982)
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1916 -
George Montgomery, American actor (d.
2000)
* 1916 -
Luther Davis, American playwright
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1917 -
Isabel Sanford, American actress (d.
2004)
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1920 -
Charlie Parker, American musician (d.
1955)
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1923 -
The Lord Attenborough, English film director
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1924 -
Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d.
2005)
* 1924 -
Dinah Washington, American singer (d.
1963)
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1933 -
Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
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1936 -
John McCain, American politician
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1937 -
James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
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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
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1940 -
Gary Gabelich, race car driver
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1941 -
Robin Leach, English television host
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1946 -
Bob Beamon, American jumper
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1953 -
James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
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1957 -
Jerry Bailey, American racing jockey
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1958 -
Michael Jackson, American singer
* 1958 -
Lenny Henry, British comic
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1959 -
Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
* 1959 -
Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
* 1959 -
Timothy Perry Shriver, American chairman of the Special Olympics
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1961 -
Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
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1962 -
Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
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1963 -
Elizabeth Fraser, English singer (
Cocteau Twins)
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1967 -
Anton Newcombe, American musician (
The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
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1969 -
Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
* 1969 -
Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
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1970 -
Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
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1971 -
Carla Gugino, American actress
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1973 -
Adam Sessler, TV show host
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1976 -
Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
* 1976 -
Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
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1977 -
John O'Brien, American soccer player
* 1977 -
Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
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1978 -
Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
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1979 -
Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
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1980 -
David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (
Simple Plan)
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1980 -
Chris Simms, American football player
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1981 -
Lanny Barbie, Canadian
porn star*
886 -
Basil I,
Byzantine Emperor (b.
811)
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1093 -
Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b.
1057)
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1395 - Duke
Albert III of Austria (b.
1349)
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1435 -
Isabeau de Bavière, wife of
Charles VI of France (b.
1371)
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1442 -
John VI, Duke of Brittany (b.
1389)
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1526 - King
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b.
1506)
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1533 -
Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
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1542 -
Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c.
1516)
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1657 -
John Lilburne, English dissenter
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1712 -
Gregory King, English statistician (b.
1648)
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1769 -
Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b.
1672)
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1780 -
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b.
1713)
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1799 -
Pope Pius VI (b.
1717)
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1856 -
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b.
1778)
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1877 -
Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b.
1801)
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1891 -
Pierre Lallement, inventor of the
bicycle (b.
1843 or
1844)
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1904 -
Murad V,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1840)
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1930 -
William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b.
1844)
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1935 -
Queen Astrid of Belgium (b.
1905)
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1947 -
Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b.
1917)
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1966 -
Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b.
1906)
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1968 -
Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b.
1881)
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1972 -
Lale Andersen, German singer (b.
1905)
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1975 -
Eamon de Valera, first
Taoiseach and third
President of Ireland (b.
1882)
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1981 -
Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b.
1892)
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1982 -
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b.
1915), who sadly died on her birthday (see above)
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1987 -
Lee Marvin, American actor (b.
1924)
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1989 -
Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b.
1909)
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2001 -
Graham Strachan, Australian television presenter (b.
1952)
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2002 -
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b.
1920)
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2003 - Ayatollah
Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.
1939)
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2004 -
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b.
1942)
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity and
Roman Catholic Church commemorate the beheading of
John the Baptist with a feast day
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Slovakia -
Slovak National Uprising Day (
1944, against the Nazis)
*The first day of
Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the
Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
*Official
Yakiniku Day in Japan as proclaimed by the
All Japan Yakiniku Association.
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1997 -
Judgment Day, from the movie
Terminator 2: Judgment Day*
BBC: On This Day*
New York Times: On This DayAugust 28 -
August 30 -
July 29 -
September 29 –
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