Notable Historical Events on August 29th
August 29th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
708 |
Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). |
1178 |
Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III |
1261 |
Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV |
1350 |
Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. |
1475 |
Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts |
1484 |
Giovanni Battista Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII |
1521 |
The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade. |
1526 |
Battle of Mohács: decisive battle - Hungarian empire conquered by Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent. |
1533 |
Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa |
1540 |
Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges |
1612 |
Battle at Surat, India: English fleet beats Portuguese |
1640 |
English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland |
1655 |
Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge. |
1664 |
Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam |
1708 |
British troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia |
1708 |
Haverhill, Mass, destroyed by French & Indians |
1742 |
Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist |
1756 |
England & France meet in war |
1756 |
Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War |
1758 |
New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation |
1776 |
Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester |
1786 |
Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass |
1792 |
British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed |
1793 |
Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed |
1825 |
Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. |
1831 |
Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer |
1833 |
Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law |
1842 |
Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war |
1844 |
1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win |
1854 |
Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay) |
1861 |
American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. |
1862 |
2nd Battle of Bull Run Va (Manassas) during US Civil War |
1862 |
Battle of Aspromonte; Italian royal forces defeat rebels |
1862 |
US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation |
1864 |
William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae |
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). |
1882 |
Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" |
1882 |
Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 & 7-44) |
1883 |
Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion |
1885 |
Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle |
1885 |
Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0 |
1885 |
Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey |
1889 |
1st American International professional lawn tennis contest (Newport RI) |
1895 |
The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England. |
1896 |
Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador |
1898 |
The Goodyear tire company is founded. |
1900 |
Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy, is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment; he will commit suicide in jail on 22 May 1901 |
1903 |
The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese |
1904 |
1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis) |
1904 |
3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis |
1905 |
Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville |
1906 |
Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die |
1906 |
William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open |
1907 |
The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. |
1908 |
NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London |
1909 |
AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m |
1909 |
World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins |
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 European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. |
1913 |
Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government |
1914 |
4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught |
1914 |
Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal |
1914 |
Battle of St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac |
1914 |
New Zealand force capture German Samoa |
1916 |
Congress creates US Naval Reserve |
1916 |
Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die |
1916 |
US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence |
1916 |
General Paul Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff |
1918 |
Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive |
1924 |
German Republic day accepts Dawes plan |
1925 |
After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him |
1929 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight |
1929 |
Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight |
1930 |
The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. |
1932 |
International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam |
1932 |
United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops |
1935 |
2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450) |
1937 |
Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st) |
1939 |
Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II |
1940 |
7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567) |
1941 |
German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children |
1943 |
Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany |
1944 |
15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees |
1944 |
Anti German rebellion in Slovakia |
1945 |
British liberate Hong Kong from Japan |
1945 |
Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan |
1947 |
Constantine Tsaldaris succeeds Maximos as Greece premier |
1949 |
USSR performs first nuclear test |
1950 |
International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952 |
1953 |
KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb |
1954 |
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens |
1956 |
French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis |
1957 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
1957 |
Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights |
1958 |
US Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo |
1958 |
George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe) |
1960 |
Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack |
1962 |
Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended |
1962 |
US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba |
1963 |
Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH |
1964 |
"Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs |
1964 |
Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released |
1964 |
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1965 |
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 |
1965 |
Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August |
1966 |
Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF) |
1966 |
Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk |
1967 |
Final TV episode of "The Fugitive" |
1967 |
Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes |
1968 |
1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains) |
1968 |
Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US president (Chicago) |
1969 |
Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench |
1969 |
KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed) |
1972 |
SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row |
1974 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1975 |
Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky |
1976 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1977 |
St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3 |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978 |
USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY |
1979 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network |
1981 |
28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9 |
1981 |
Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League)) |
1982 |
38°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August |
1982 |
George Brett gets his 1,500th hit |
1982 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
1982 |
Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1 |
1982 |
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
1985 |
Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission |
1985 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1985 |
NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time |
1986 |
Heike Drechsler of East Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) |
1986 |
Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya |
1987 |
Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time |
1987 |
Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Women's Marathon at World Chapionships in Rome in 2hr 25:17mins |
1988 |
Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record |
1988 |
USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir |
1990 |
C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, killing 13 |
1990 |
Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq |
1991 |
JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney |
1991 |
USSR suspends Communist Party activities |
1992 |
Largest wrestling crowd outside US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium, London |
1992 |
Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris |
1992 |
Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout & decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error |
1993 |
21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton |
1993 |
93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris |
1995 |
NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces. |
1996 |
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, 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 are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. |
2002 |
19th MTV Awards: Eminem & Pink wins |
2003 |
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. |
2004 |
21st MTV Awards: OutKast, Beyoncé & Usher f/ Lil Jon & Ludacris wins |
2005 |
Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage. |
2007 |
A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base. |
2010 |
62nd Emmy Awards: Mad Men, Modern Family, Bryan Cranston & Kyra Sedgwick win |
2012 |
Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed |
2012 |
Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23 |
2012 |
Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction |
2012 |
The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles |
2013 |
41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya |
2016 |
Zika virus: Singapore confirms 41 locally transmitted cases |
2017 |
Top US, S.Korean military officers pledge tough response to N.Korea missile launch |
2017 |
North Korea fires missile over Japan in aggressive test |
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