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 Slovak 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
• 1996 - A Vnukovo Tupolev TU-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen killing 141
• 1997 - Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz. Angel also rapes and beats Christopher's girlfriend, whom survives. This is the first of a string of murders that Angel commits.

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 (All in the Family, The Jeffersons)
• 1920 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist, composer (d. 1955)
• 1923 - Lord Richard Attenborough, film director
• 1924 - Dinah Washington, singer (d. 1963)
• 1933 - Arnold Koller, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 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
• 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
• 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, actress
• 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, singer
• 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Ireland snooker player

Deaths

• 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
• 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
• 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
• 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
• 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

Holidays and observances

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