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. 1349)
• 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, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1930 – William Archibald Spooner, writer (b. 1844)
• 1935 – Queen Astrid of Belgium
• 1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter
• 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, theoretician.
• 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer
• 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)
• 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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