August 29


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

Events

   * 1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
   * 1526 - Battle of Mohacs - death of the last Jagiellonian king of
     Hungary.
   * 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years'
     War
   * 1786 - Shays' Rebellion breaks out
   * 1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
   * 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
   * 1896 - Chop suey invented in New York City
   * 1898 - Goodyear Tire company founded
   * 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Stone Age Native American discovered
     in California
   * 1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy
   * 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovakian troops
     turn against the Nazi rulers.
   * 1949 - First Soviet atomic bomb is tested
   * 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
   * 1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist
     Party

Births

   * 1632 - John Locke, philosopher (+ 1704)
   * 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, author, teacher
   * 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter
   * 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician, writer (+ 1894)
   * 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, writer
   * 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the electric starter
   * 1898 - Preston Sturges, screenwriter (+ 1959)
   * 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (+ 1982)
   * 1916 - George Montgomery, actor (+ 2000)
   * 1920 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist, composer (+ 1955)
   * 1923 - Lord Richard Attenborough, film director
   * 1924 - Dinah Washington, singer (+ 1963)
   * 1936 - John McCain, American politician
   * 1938 - Robert Rubin, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
   * 1938 - Elliott Gould, actor
   * 1939 - William Friedkin, film director
   * 1939 - Joel Schumacher, film director
   * 1941 - Robin Leach, television host
   * 1946 - Bob Beamon, Olympic Games gold medal track and field athlete
   * 1958 - Michael Jackson, singer
   * 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, actress
   * 1969 - Me'Shell NdegˇOcello, singer

Deaths

   * 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
   * 1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
   * 1877 - Brigham Young, Mormon leader
   * 1904 - Murat V, deposed Ottoman sultan
   * 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
   * 1947 - Manolete, bullfighter
   * 1975 - Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman
   * 1981 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer
   * 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, actress
   * 1987 - Lee Marvin, actor
   * 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader