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August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.
[edit] 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.
- 1498 - Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
- 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.
- 1863 - Second Battle of Bull Run
- 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).
- 1882 - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times.
- 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
- 1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
- 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.
- 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1962 - The lower deck of the George Washington Bridge opens in New York and New Jersey
- 1966 - Last scheduled Beatles concert, in Candlestick Park San Francisco, California.
- 1970 - First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the Boeing 747.
- 1970 - Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
- 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 to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
[edit] 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 (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 poet (d. 1929
- 1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
- 1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
- 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1898 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
- 1904 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
- 1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
- 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 - Richard Attenborough, English film director
- 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
- 1928 - Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1929 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
- 1929 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
- 1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
- 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, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
- 1942 - John Heuser, Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis
- 1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
- 1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
- 1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer
- 1952 - Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
- 1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
- 1956 - Mark Morris, American choreographer
- 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, Member of the Kennedy Family
- 1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
- 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, English singer
- 1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician
- 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
- 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
- 1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
- 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
- 1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
- 1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host
- 1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
- 1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
- 1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
- 1977 - John Patrick 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
- 1980 - Chris Simms, American football player
- 1980 - David West, American basketball player
- 1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian porn star
- 1982 - A+, American rapper
- 1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
- 1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor
- 1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
- 1987 - Risa Shimamoto, Japanese gravure idol
[edit] Deaths
- 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
- 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)
- 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)
- 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
- 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)
- 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
- 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)
- 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
- 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)
- 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
- 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
- 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
- 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
- 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
- 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
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