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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
1200-1899
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.
1900-1999
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
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.
2000-2099
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
Births
1600-1899
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)
1900-1999
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
1916 - George Montgomery, actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Isabel Sanford, actress
1920 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist, composer (d. 1955)
1923 - The Lord Attenborough, film director
1924 - Dinah Washington, singer (d. 1963)
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter and lyricist (d. 2005)
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/songwriter
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics
1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, actress
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, singer
1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Ireland snooker player
Deaths
800-1899
886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria
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)
1900-1999
1904 - Murad V, deposed Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
1930 - William Archibald Spooner, writer (b. 1844)
1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
1947 - Manolete, bullfighter
1966 - Sayyid Qutb, theoretician.
1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer ("Lili Marleen")
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
2000-2099
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)
2004 - Hans Vonk, conductor
Holidays and observances
Eastern Orthodox Christianity commemorates the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day
Fictional
Judgement Day in the movie Terminator 2 - 29 August 1997.
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