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.
1030 - King Olaf II of Norway dies.
1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1057).
1123 - King Eystein I of Norway dies (b. ca. 1088).
1189 - Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, one of the last men to be elected pope outside the College of Cardinals.
1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria dies (b. 1349).
1435 - Isabeau de Bavière dies (b. 1371). Queen of Charles VI of France.
1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany dies (b. 1389).
1471 - D. Afonso V, rei de Portugal, conquista Tânger, em Marrocos.
1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
1484 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected Pope Innocent VIII.
1498 - Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
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.
1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia dies killed in battle (b. 1506).
1533 - Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadores.
1533 - Atahualpa dies. Last Inca ruler of Peru.
1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1542 - Cristovão da Gama dies (b. c. 1516). Portuguese soldier.
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.
1655 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1657 - John Lilburne dies. English dissenter.
1712 - Gregory King dies (b. 1648). English statistician.
1725 - Charles Townshend was born (d. 1767). English politician.
1730 - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (Mestre Aleijadinho) was born. Brazilian sculptor.
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.
1756 - Jan Śniadecki was born (d. 1830). Polish mathematician.
1769 - Edmund Hoyle dies (b. 1672). English author and teacher.
1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin was born (d. 1853). Founder of Sinology.
1780 - Jean Ingres was born (d. 1867). French painter.
1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot dies (b. 1713). French architect.
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.
1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
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.
1844 - Edward Carpenter was born (d. 1929). English poet.
1844 - Apolinário Porto-Alegre was born. Brazilian writer and poet.
1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice dies (b. 1762). Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers.
1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck dies (b. 1778). British Christian writer.
1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels.
1862 - Andrew Fisher was born (d. 1928). 5th Prime Minister of Australia.
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck was born (d. 1949). Belgian writer who was Nobel laureate in 1911.
1869 - The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
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 (d. 1950). French politician.
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.
1882 - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times.
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.

1889 - Stefan Dunjov dies (b. 1815). Banat Bulgarian military figure.
1891 - Pierre Lallement dies (b. 1843 or 1944). Inventor of the bicycle.
1891 - José Maria Latino Coelho dies in Sintra (b. 29 Nov 1825). Portuguese historian and politician.
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 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1898 - Preston Sturges was born (d. 1959). American screenwriter.
1901 - Aurel Joliat was born (d. 1986). Canadian ice hockey player.

1902 - Cristovão Torres de Camargo was born in São Paulo. Brazilian poet.
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis.
1904 - Werner Forssmann was born (d. 1979). German urologist, Nobel laureate.

1904 - Murad V dies (b. 1840). Ottoman Sultan.

1905 - Charles Alfred "Al" talafierro was born in Montrose, Colorado (d. 3 Feb 1969). American cartoonist.

1905 - Dhyan Chand was born (d. 1979). Indian hockey player.

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.

1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky was born. Austrian-Polish cinematographer.
1912 - Barry Sullivan was born (d. 1994). American actor.
1914 - Alfonso Quiñónez Molina becomes President of San Salvador.
1915 - Ingrid Bergman was born (d.29 Aug 1982). Swedish actress.
1916 - George Montgomery was born (d. 2000). American actor.
1916 - Luther Davis was born. American playwright.
1917 - Isabel Sanford was born (d. 2004). American actress.
1920 - Charlie Parker was born (d. 1955). American jazz saxophonist and composer.

1922 - Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.
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.
1924 - Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho [Uanhenga Xitu] was born in Kalomboloca. Angolan writer and politician.
1926 - Fada Santoro was born. Brazilian actress.

1926 - María Dolores Pradera was born. Spanish melodic singer.
1928 - Charles Gray was born (d. 2000). English actor.
1929 - El dirigible alemán Graf Zeppelin realiza el primer vuelo alrededor del mundo.
1929 - Thom Gunn was born (d. 2004). British poet.
1929 - Marmaduke Hussey was born (d. 2006). BBC Chairman.
1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda voluntarily evacuated to Scotland.
1930 - Jacques Bouchard was born (d. 2006). Quebec advertising executive.

1930 - William Archibald Spooner dies (b. 1844). English writer.

1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis was born (d. 2001). Greek singer.
1931 - Lise Payette was born. Quebec politician, writer and columnist.

1931 - David Abercrombie dies. Abercrombie & Fitch founder.
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 - William Friedkin was born. American film director.
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 (d. 1984). American race car driver.

1941 - Robin Leach was born. English television host.

1942 - James Glennon was born (d. 2006). American cinematographer.
1942 - John Heuser was born. Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis.
1943 - Edu Lobo (Eduardo 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.

1945 - Wyomia Tyus was born. American athlete.
1946 - Bob Beamon was born. American jumper.
1947 - James Hunt was born (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.

1952 - Karen Hesse was born. American children's writer.
1952 - Dave Malone was born. American rock guitarist.
1953 - James Quesada was born. Nicaraguan-American anthropologist.
1956 - Viv Anderson was born. English former footballer.
1956 - Mark Morris was born. American choreographer.
1957 - Jerry D. Bailey was born. American racing jockey.
1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1958 - Michael Jackson was born. American singer and songwriter.

1958 - Lenny Henry was born. British comic.
1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna was born. Telugu film actor.
1959 - Chris Hadfield was born. Canadian astronaut.

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 - Cássio Gabus Mendes was born. Brazilian actress.

1961 - Carsten Fischer was born. German field hockey player.
1962 - The lower deck of the George Washington Bridge opens in New York and New Jersey.
1962 - David Charlebois was born (d. 11 Sep 2001). Moroccon born American Airlines co-pilot died on 11 Sep events when the airplane crashed near Pentagon.
1962 - Rebecca De Mornay was born. American actress.
1962 - Hiroki Kikuta was born. Japanese composer.
1962 - Rebecca De Mornay was born. American actress.
1963 - Elizabeth Fraser was born. Scottish singer.
1966 - Last scheduled Beatles concert, in Candlestick Park San Francisco, California.

1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb, an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Broherhood.
1966 - Sayyid Qutb dies (b. 1906). Egyptian theoretician.
1967 - Anton Newcombe was born. American musician.

1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III dies (b. 1881). American soldier and planner.
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello was born. American singer.
1969 - Joe Swail was born. Irish snooker player.
1970 - First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the Boeing 747.
1970 - Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
1970 - Alessandra Negrini was born. Brazilian actress.
1970 - Jacco Eltingh was born. Dutch tennis player.
1971 - Carla Gugino was born. American actress.
1972 - Bae Yong Joon was born. South Korean actor.

1972 - Lale Andersen dies (b. 1905). German singer.

1973 - Adam Sessler was born. American TV show host.
1973 - Olivier Jacque was born. Motorcyclist.
1974 - Kumi Tanioka was born. Japanese composer.

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.

1976 - Stephen Carr was born. Irish footballer.
1976 - Pablo Mastroeni was born. American soccer player.
1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson was born. Danish footballer.
1976 - Jimmy Reed dies (b. 1925). American blues singer.
1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam dies (b. 1899). Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher.

1977 - John Patrick O'Brien was born. American soccer player.
1977 - Aaron Rowand was born. American baseball player.
1977 - Roy Oswalt was born. American baseball player.
1977 - Charlie Pickering was born. Australian comedian.

1977 - Brian McGuire dies (b. 1945). Australian racing driver.

1978 - Em Portugal dá-se a tomada de posse do III Governo Constitucional, presidido por Nobre da Costa.

1978 - Celestine Babayaro was born. Nigerian footballer.
1979 - Ali Eftekhari was born. Iranian scientist.
1979 - Chieu Luu was born. Canadian journalist.
1980 - Chris Simms was born. American football player.
1980 - David West was born. American basketball player.
1980 - Nicholas Tse was born. Hong Kong singer and actor.
1980 - David Desrosiers was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan).
1980 - Bernardo Santareno dies. One of the greatest Portuguese dramatists of the XX Century.

1981 - Lanny Barbie was born. Canadian adult actress.
1981 - Geneviève Jeanson was born. Quebec bicycle racer.
1981 - Lowell Thomas dies (b. 1892). American writer and broadcaster.
1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

1982 - A+ was born. American rapper.
1982 - Carlos Delfino was born. Argentinean basketball player.
1982 - Ingrid Bergman dies on 67th birthday (b. 29 Aug 1915). Swedish, academy award winning actress.
1985 - Jeffrey Licon was born. American actor.
1986 - Lauren Collins was born. Canadian actress.

1986 - Johanna Nieto was born. American model.
1987 - Lee Marvin dies (b. 1924). American actor.

1987 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete, wins for the second time the Marathon in European Championship.

1987 - Tony Kane was born. Irish footballer.

1987 - Risa Shimamoto was born. Japanese gravure idol.

1987 - Lee Marvin dies (b. 1924). American actor.
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.

1995 - Frank Perry dues (b. 1930). American 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.

2000 - Willie Maddren dies (b. 1951). English former footballer.
2001 - Susana Feitor, atleta portuguesa, conquista a medalha de prata nos 10Km marcha das XXI Universíadas de Pequim.
2001 - Begins the greatest lan party happened un Portugal, The Minho Campus Party.
2001 - Francisco Rabal dies (b. 1926). Spanish actor.
2002 - Alan MacNaughtan dies (b. 1920). Scottish actor.
2003 - Patrick Procktor dies (b. 1936). English artist.
2003 - Michel Constantin dies (b. 1924). French film actor.
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 - German Michael Schumacher is for the seventh time F1 World Champion, ending at the second place the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps race. Finnish K. Raikkonen won the race.
2004 - Hans Vonk dies (b. 1942). Dutch conductor.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.

2007 - Cannes Film Festival begins (Cannes Film Festival 2007 List of Films in the Official Selection).

Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholic Church commemorate the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day.
Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day (1944, against the Nazis).
The first day of Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
Brasil: Dia Nacional de Combate ao Fumo.