August 29
August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.
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
- 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
- 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 - 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
Births
- 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)
- 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
- 1916 - George Montgomery, actor (d. 2000)
- 1917 - Isabel Sanford, actress (All in the Family, The Jeffersons) (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist, composer (d. 1955)
- 1923 - The Lord Attenborough, film director
- 1924 - Dinah Washington, singer (d. 1963)
- 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, the King of Pop, 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
- 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor
- 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy
- 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
- 1904 - Murad V, deposed Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
- 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
- 1947 - Manolete, bullfighter
- 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, theoretician.
- 1975 - Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman
- 1981 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer
Holidays and observances
August 28 - August 30 - July 29 - September 29 -- listing of all days
