On this day in History - Aug 29

0708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708)
0886 - Basil I dies (b. 0811). Byzantine Emperor.
1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1057).
1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria dies (b. 1349).
1435 - Isabeau de Bavière dies (b. 1371). Queen of Charles VI of France.
1471 - D. Afonso V, rei de Portugal, conquista Tânger, em Marrocos.
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
1533 - Atahualpa dies. Last Inca ruler of Peru.
1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom .
1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born (d. 1683). French minister of finance.
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath was born (d. 1701). English royalist statesman.
1632 - John Locke was born (d. 1704). English philosopher.
1657 - John Lilburne dies. English dissenter.
1712 - Gregory King dies (b. 1648). English statistician.
1730 - Nascimento de Antonio Francisco Lisboa (Aleijadinho). Escultor brasileiro.
1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde was born (d. 1845). Austrian field marshal and statesman
1769 - Edmund Hoyle dies (b. 1672). English author and teacher.
1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot dies (b. 1713). French architect.
1780 - Jean Ingres was born (d. 1867). French painter.
1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1799 - Pope Pius VI [Giovanni A Braschi] dies (b. 1717). Italian Pope (1775-99).
1805 - Frederick Maurice was born (d. 1872). English theologian.
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born (d. 1894). American physician and writer.
1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi was born in Tucumán (d. 1884). Argentine politician and writer (“Bases y punto de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina").
1825 - Reconhecimento da independência do Brasil por Portugal.
1842 - Tratado de Nanking, que abre a China à penetração estrangeira.
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)
1843 - David B. Hill was born (d. 1910). Governor of New York.
1862 - Andrew Fisher was born (d. 1928). Fifth Prime Minister of Australia
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck was born (d. 1949). Belgian writer who was the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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)
1871 - Albert Lebrun was born. President of France (1932-1940)
1874 - Manuel Machado was born. Spanish poet.
1876 - Charles F. Kettering was born (d. 1958). American inventor.
1877 - Brigham Young dies (b. 1801). American religious leader and western settler
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.

1891 - Morre, em Sintra, José Maria Latino Coelho (n. 29 Nov 1825). Historiador e deputado português.
1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
1895 - Francisco Navarro Villoslada dies. Spanish writer and ideologist.
1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City
1898 - Goodyear tire company is founded.
1898 - Preston Sturges was born (d. 1959). American screenwriter.
1904 - Werner Forssman was born. German urologist (Nobel 1956) .
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1904 - Murad V dies (b. 1840). Ottoman Sultan
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
1914 - Alfonso Quiñónez Molina assume a presidência de El Salvador
1915 - Ingrid Bergman was born (d.29 Aug 1982). Swedish actress.
1916 - George Montgomery was born (d. 2000). American actor.
1917 - Isabel Sanford was born (d. 2004). American actress.
1920 - Charlie Parker was born (d. 1955). American jazz saxophonist and composer
1923 - The Lord Attenborough was born. English film director.
1924 - Dinah Washington was born (d. 1963). American singer.
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez was born (d. 2005)., Mexican songwriter.
1926 - Fada Santoro was born. Brazilian actress.
1929 - El dirigible alemán Graf Zeppelin realiza el primer vuelo alrededor del mundo.
1930 - the last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda voluntarily evacuated to Scotland.
1930 - William Archibald Spooner dies (b. 1844). English writer.

1933 - Portugal: É criada a Polícia de Vigilâncioa e Defesa do Estado (PVDE), antepassada da PIDE-DGS.
1933 - Arnold Koller was born. Swiss Federal Councilor.
1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium dies (b. 1905)
1936 - John McCain was born. American politician
1937 - James Florio was born. Governor of New Jersey
1938 - Robert Rubin was born. United States Secretary of the Treasury
1938 - Elliott Gould was born. American actor
1939 - William Friedkin was born. American film director
1939 - Joel Schumacher was born. American film director
1940 - Gary Gabelich was born. Race car driver and land world speed record holder
1941 - Robin Leach was born. English television host.
1943 - Edu Lobo (Euardo de Góis Lobo) was born. Brazilian music, songwriter and singer.
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.
1945 - Adolfo Castelo was born. Argentine journalist and television host.
1946 - Bob Beamon was born. American jumper
1947 - James Hunt was born in Sutton, Surrey (d. 14 Jun 1993). English F1 car racer (1973 - 1979): 92 GPs (10 times winner); World Champion.
1947 - Manolete dies (b. 1917). Spanish bullfighter
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
1958 - Michael Jackson was born. American singer and songwriter
1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues was born. Portuguese composer
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver was born. American chairman of the Special Olympics
1959 - Ramón Díaz was born. Argentine player and coach (National Team).
1961 - Nascimento de Cássio Gabus Mendes. Actor brasileiro.
1962 - Rebecca De Mornay was born. American actress
1966 - Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco
1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Broherhood.
1966 - Sayyid Qutb dies (b. 1906). Egyptian theoretician
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello was born. American singer
1969 - Joe Swail was born. Irish snooker player
1970 - Alessandra Negrini was born. Brazilian actress.
1972 - Lale Andersen dies (b. 1905). German singer.

1975 - É assinado em Lisboa um acordo de cessar-fogo entre o MPLA e a UNITA (Angola)
1975 - Eamon de Valera dies (b. 1882). President of Ireland (1959-1973).
1975 - Perú: Francisco Morales Bermúdez encabeza un golpe de estado contra el gobierno del entonces presidente, Juan Velasco Alvarado.
1976 - Luana Piovani was born. Brazilian model and actress and model.

1976 - Dahl Tomasson was born in Roskild, Denmark. Footballer.
1978 - Em Portugal dá-se a tomada de posse do III Governo Constitucional, presidido por Nobre da Costa.
1980 - David Desrosiers was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 - Morre Bernardo Santareno, um dos maiores dramaturgos portugueses do século XX.
1981 - Lowell Thomas dies (b. 1892). American writer and broadcaster
1982 - Ingrid Bergman dies on 67th birthday (b. 29 Aug 1915). Swedish, academy award winning actress.
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1986 - Johanna Nieto was born. American model.
1987 - Lee Marvin dies (b. 1924). American actor .

1987 - Em Roma, a atleta portuguesa Rosa Mota sagra-se bicampeã Europeia da maratona

1989 - Peter Scott dies (b. 1909). English explorer, naturalist, and painter.
1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
1995 - NATO launched Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1995 - Reinaldo Silva dies shot. Brazilian journalist.
1995 - Enrique Carreras dies. Argentine film director.
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.

2001 - Susana Feitor, atleta portuguesa, conquista a medalha de prata nos 10Km marcha das XXI Universíadas de Pequim.
2001 - Dá-se inicio à maior lan party realizada em Portugal, a Minho Campus Party
2001 - Francisco Rabal dies. Spanish actor
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim dies (b. 1939). Iraqi political leader.
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 in Atenas.
2004 - O alemão Michael Schumacher sagra-se pela 7ª. vez Campeão do Mundo de Fórmula 1 após o Grande Prémio da Bélgica disputado no circuito de de Spa-Francorchamps.
2004 - Hans Vonk dies (b. 1942). Dutch conductor.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity commemorates the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day Slovak National Uprising Day, Slovakia
Brasil: Dia Nacional de Combate ao Fumo.