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One Day Like This : August 29

Rolando De La Garza Aug 29, 2012 · 11 min read

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

One Day Like This

One Day Like This : August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.

One Day Like This : Events

708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
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 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
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.
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years’ War.
1758 – The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
1786 – Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1825 – Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
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.
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
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).
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
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 Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
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.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S.
2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

One Day Like This : Births

1434 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop, poet, and diplomat (d. 1472)
1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician (d. 1683)
1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman (d. 1701)
1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician (d. 1704)
1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author (d. 1803)
1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. 1797)
1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1777 – Hyacinth, Chuvash founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA (d. 1888)
1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907)
1843 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 – Andrew Fisher, Australian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist and educator (d. 1962)
1876 – Kim Gu, Korean politician, 6th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)
1881 – Albert Henderson, Canadian footballer (d. 1947)
1898 – Preston Sturges, American director and producer (d. 1959)
1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1905 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (d. 1941)
1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1910 – Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer
1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
1916 – George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
1920 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
1923 – Richard Attenborough, English director
1923 – Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, English broadcasting executive (d. 2006)
1924 – María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress
1924 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and educator
1926 – Betty Lynn, American actress
1928 – Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
1928 – Herbert Meier, Swiss writer and translator
1929 – Thom Gunn, English-American poet (d. 2004)
1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 – Lise Payette, Canadian politician, writer, and columnist
1932 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (d. 1996)
1933 – Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
1934 – John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
1935 – William Friedkin, American director
1935 – László Garai, Hungarian scientist and psychologist
1936 – John McCain, American politician
1937 – James Florio, American politician
1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer
1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower
1939 – Joel Schumacher, American director
1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary
1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 – Robin Leach, English television host
1942 – James Glennon, American scientist
1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)
1943 – Dick Halligan, American musician and composer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1945 – Wyomia Tyus, American runner
1945 – Chris Copping, English singer-songwriter, musician, and composer
1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper
1946 – Demetris Christofias, Greek-Cypriot politician, and 6th President of Cyprus
1947 – Temple Grandin, American doctor and activist
1947 – James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
1949 – Werner Kaiser, German footballer
1950 – Michael (Dahulich), American bishop
1950 – Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
1950 – Frank Henenlotter, American director
1950 – Dave Reichert, American politician
1952 – Karen Hesse, American author
1952 – Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Radiators)
1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
1953 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American novelist
1955 – Diamanda Galás, American singer, pianist, and composer
1955 – Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1955 – Jacob Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
1956 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers) (d. 1993)
1956 – Mark Morris, American choreographer
1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American jockey
1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and writer
1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (d. 2009)
1959 – Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian actor
1959 – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fairground Attraction)
1959 – Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
1959 – Stephen Wolfram, English physicist and mathematician
1960 – Todd English, American chef
1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, composer, and producer (Planet X, CAB, Ring of Fire, and Seven the Hardway)
1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
1961 – Rodney McCray, American basketball player
1962 – Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1962 – Carl Banks, American football player
1962 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor, writer, and singer
1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer (Cocteau Twins
1964 – Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
1965 – Will Perdue, American basketball player
1965 – Dina Spybey, American actress
1966 – Jörn Großkopf, German footballer
1967 – Anton Newcombe, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1967 – Jiří Růžek, Czech photographer
1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello, German-American singer-songwriter
1969 – Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
1969 – Joe Swail, Irish snooker player
1971 – Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 – Alex Griffin, English bass player (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin)
1971 – Carla Gugino, American actress
1972 – Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 – Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
1973 – Adam Sessler, American television host
1974 – Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 – Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor
1975 – Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
1975 – Kyle Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matchbox 20 and The New Left)
1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
1976 – Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
1976 – Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1977 – Devean George, American basketball player
1977 – John Hensley, American actor
1977 – John Patrick O’Brien, American soccer player
1977 – Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 – Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 – Jo Weil, German actor
1978 – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 – Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
1979 – Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player (Simple Plan and Reset)
1980 – Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1980 – Chris Simms, American football player
1980 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
1980 – David West, American basketball player
1981 – Lanny Barbie, Canadian porn actress
1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
1981 – Dennis Joseph O’Neil, Korean-American actor
1981 – Jay Ryan, New Zealand actor
1982 – Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
1984 – Alexander Hug, German rugby player
1985 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1985 – Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
1986 – Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 – Nicole Anderson, American actress
1990 – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
1990 – Julia Vlassov, American figure skater
1991 – Anikó Kovacsics, Hungarian handball player
1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1993 – Lucas Cruikshank, American comedian and actor

One Day Like This : Deaths

886 – Basil I, Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 – Eystein I of Norway (b. 1088)
1395 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1526 – Louis II of Hungary (b. 1506)
1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
1533 – Atahualpa, sovereign emperor (b. 1497)
1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. 1516)
1543 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, German mother of Anne of Cleves (b. 1491)
1657 – John Lilburne, English activist (b. 1614)
1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author (b. 1778)
1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1846)
1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 – Pierre Lallement, French inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843)
1892 – William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian (b. 1809)
1904 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
1935 – Astrid of Sweden (b. 1905)
1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian general (b. 1890)
1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1951 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (b. 1881)
1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American convicted murderer (b. 1904)
1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, and philosopher (b. 1899)
1976 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
1982 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
1984 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (b. 1890)
1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian politician, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
1985 – Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
1987 – Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer, and actor (b. 1914)
1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman (b. 1924)
1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
1992 – Teddy Turner, English comedian and actor (b. 1917)
1995 – Frank Perry, American director (b. 1930)
2000 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
2001 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (b. 1952)
2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
2003 – Michel Constantin, French actor (b. 1924)
2003 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 – Richard Jewell, American police officer (b. 1962)
2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founder of Peet’s Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, English comedian, writer, and producer (b. 1953)
2008 – Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)

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