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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.
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.
- 2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by Chechen missile outside of Grozny killing 118 soldiers
Births
- 1632 - John Locke, philosopher († 1704)
- 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter († 1867)
- 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician, writer († 1894)
- 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, writer († 1949)
- 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 Ndeg�Ocello, singer
Deaths
- 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
- 1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru
- 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, author, teacher (* 1672)
- 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 (* 1909)
- 1997 - Christopher Maier, student killed by Angel Maturino Resendiz
- 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader
Holidays and observances
See Also:
August 28 - August 30 - July 29 - September 29 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n