August 29

August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.

Events

• 1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first
• 1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England
• 1484 - Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope
• 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
• 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
• 1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
• 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
• 1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
• 1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City
• 1898 - Goodyear tire company is founded.
• 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers
• 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California
• 1930 - the last 36 remaining inhabitants of Saint Kilda left forever
• 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 rulers.
• 1949 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb 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
• 1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
• 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
• 1996 - 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 killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria
• 1997 - Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, the first of nine victims.
• 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, was assassinated in a terrorist bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf.
• 2004 - End of the 2004 Summer Olympics

Births

• 1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance
• 1632 - John Locke, philosopher (d. 1704)
• 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
• 1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
• 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., physician, writer (d. 1894)
• 1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
• 1862 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
• 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, writer (d. 1949)
• 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the electric starter
• 1898 - Preston Sturges, screenwriter (d. 1959)
• 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
• 1916 - George Montgomery, actor (d. 2000)
• 1917 - Isabel Sanford, actress
• 1920 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist, composer (d. 1955)
• 1923 - The Lord Attenborough, film director
• 1924 - Dinah Washington, singer (d. 1963)
• 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter and lyricist (d. 2005)
• 1933 - Arnold Koller, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1936 - John McCain, American politician
• 1937 - James Florio, governor of New Jersey
• 1938 - Robert Rubin, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1938 - Elliott Gould, actor
• 1939 - William Friedkin, film director
• 1939 - Joel Schumacher, film director
• 1940 - Gary Gabelich, car racer and land world speed record holder
• 1941 - Robin Leach, television host
• 1946 - Bob Beamon, American long jumper
• 1958 - Michael Jackson, singer/songwriter
• 1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, composer
• 1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics
• 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, actress
• 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, singer
• 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Ireland snooker player

Deaths

• 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
• 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
• 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1057)
• 1435 - Isabeau de Bavière, queen of Charles VI of France (b. 1371)
• 1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
• 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, author, teacher (b. 1672)
• 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
• 1877 - Brigham Young, Mormon leader (b. 1801)
• 1904 - Murad V, deposed Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, writer (b. 1844)
• 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
• 1947 - Manolete, bullfighter
• 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, theoretician.
• 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer ("Lili Marleen")
• 1975 - Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman
• 1981 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer
• 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
• 1987 - Lee Marvin, actor
• 1989 - Peter Scott, explorer, naturalist and painter (b. 1909)
• 1997 - Christopher Maier , student killed by Angel Maturino Resendiz
• 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
• 2004 - Hans Vonk, conductor

Holidays and observances

• Eastern Orthodox Christianity commemorates the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day

Fictional

• Judgement Day in the movie Terminator 2 - 29 August 1997.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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