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 - 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 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
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)
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

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholic Church commemorate the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day
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.

Fictional dates

1997 - Judgment Day, from the movie Judgment Day

External links

BBC: On This Day

August 28 - August 30 - July 29 - September 29 – listing of all days

Gourt Home::Gourt :: August 29

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Fictional dates

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