August 29
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[edit] Births
- 1938 - Elliott Gould, actor
- 1958 - Michael Jackson, singer
- 1920 - Charlie Parker, musician
[edit] 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
[edit] 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