August 29
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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. It is also the 1st day of Thoth - which is the 1st day of the Egyptian Horoscope. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
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Events
- 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
- 1475 - The 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.
- 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1842 - The Tokugawa shogunate orders the local daimyō to begin providing foreign ships with fresh water and supplies when requested. (Traditional Japanese date: July 24, 1842).
- 1862 - Battle of Aspromonte: Italian royal forces defeat rebels.
- 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 whites, 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 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 Nazi rulers.
- 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.
- 1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb, a leading 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.
- 1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- 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 are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
- 1997 - Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, USA, the first of nine victims.
- 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 1281 and costing over 100 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)
- 1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
- 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
- 1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
- 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
- 1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine political theorist and diplomat, father of Argentine Constitution, Founding Father of 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 Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
- 1898 - Preston Sturges, American screenwriter (d. 1959)
- 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey meadallist.(d. 1979)
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- 1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
- 1923 - The Lord Attenborough, English film director
- 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
- 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1936 - John McCain, American politician
- 1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
- 1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
- 1939 - William Friedkin, American film director
- 1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
- 1940 - Gary Gabelich, race car driver and land world speed record holder
- 1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
- 1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
- 1947 - Charles Grubb, American Genius and Entrepeneur
- 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer and songwriter
- 1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
- 1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, American chairman of the Special Olympics
- 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, English singer (Cocteau Twins)
- 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
- 1969 - Brian Bonds, American Banker
- 1969 - Joe Swail, Irish snooker player
- 1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
- 1978 - Larry Ganzman, Ukrainian emigrant
- 1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Joelle Conshue, American Legal Secretary and Paralegal
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, queen 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
- 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)
- 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
- 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, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 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)
- 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 Nazi's)
Fictional
- The day the running stopped for fugitive Richard Kimble - 29 August 1967.
- Judgment Day in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day - 29 August 1997.
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