August 29th: This Day in History

       

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:

On this day in 708, copper coins were minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). In 1178  on this day, Anti-Pope Callistus III gave his Papal title to Alexander III. Jacques Pantaleon was elected as Pope Urban IV on this day in 1261. The Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer) was fought on this day in 1350, when the English naval fleet under King Edward III defeated a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. The Treaty of Picquigny was signed on this day in 1475, when king Louis XI purchased English contacts. In 1484 on this day, Giovanni B Cibo was elected as Pope Innocent VIII. The Ottoman Turks captured Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade, on this day in 1521. Hungary was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Mohács on this day in 1526. Francisco Pizarro ordered the death of the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, on this day in 1533. In 1540 on this day, Emperor Karel deprived the city of Ghent definitive rights/privileges. On this day in 1541, the Ottoman Turks captured Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. The Battle at Surat India took place on this day in 1612, with the English fleet beating the Portuguese. English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland on this day in 1640. On this day in 1655, Warsaw fell without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge. Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patented wooden firespout in Amsterdam on this day in 1664. English troops occupied Menorca & Sardinia on this day in 1708. In 1708 on this day, Haverhill, Massachusetts, was destroyed by the French & Native American tribes. Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist on this day in 1742. This day in 1756  marked Prussian Libya occupied Saxson, marking the beginning of the Seven Years War, where England & France would clash across continents. On this day in 1758, the New Jersey Legislature formed the first Indian reservation. On this day in 1776 during the Revolutionary War, Americans withdrew from Manhattan to Westchester. Shay's Rebellion took place on this day in 1786 in Springfield, Massachusetts.  In 1792 on this day, the English warship Royal George capsized in Spithead; killing 900.

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In 1793 on this day, slaves in the French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) were freed. Portugal officially recognized the independence of Brazil on this day in 1825.

1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer

1833 - Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law

1842 - Gr 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 Intl pro 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.

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 Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught

1914 - Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal

1914 - Battle at St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac

1916 - Congress creates US Naval reserve

1916 - Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff

1916 - Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die

1916 - US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence

1916 - 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

Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 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

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 - Denmark scuttles their 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 follows Maximos as Greece premier

1949 - USSR performs first nuclear test

1949 - USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb

1950 - Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52

1953 - KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 - USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb

1954 - SF 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 - Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo

1958 - George Harrison joins 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

Animator Walt DisneyAnimator Walt Disney 1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released

1964 - On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)

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 "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 - Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for 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

1982 - 38°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August

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 E 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 - Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)

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 AFB, Germany, killing 13

1991 - JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney

1991 - USSR suspends Communist Party activities

1992 - Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium

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.

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. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing 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.

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

Professional Road Cyclist and Testicular Cancer Survivor Lance ArmstrongProfessional Road Cyclist and Testicular Cancer Survivor Lance Armstrong 2012 - The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles

1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake.   1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws.   1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.   1885 - The first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.   1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.   1892 - Pop (Billy) Shriver (Chicago Cubs) caught a ball that was dropped from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.   1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.   1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.   1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.   1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.   1962 - The lower level of the George Washington Bridge opened.   1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days in space.   1966 - Mia Farrow withdrew from the cast of the ABC-TV's "Peyton Place."   1967 - The final episode of "The Fugitive" aired.   1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to hit 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.   1977 - Lou Brock brought his total of stolen bases to 893. The record he beat was held by Ty Cobb for 49 years.   1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.   1983 - The anchor of the USS Monitor, from the U.S. Civil War, was retrieved by divers.   1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.   1991 - The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party's role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.   1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.   1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.   1994 - Mario Lemieux announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He would sit out the National Hockey Leagues (NHL) 1994-95 season.   1998 - Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company offer.   2004 - India test-launched a nuclear-capable missle able to carry a one-ton warhead. The weapon had a range of 1,560 miles.



1533 Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Incas, was murdered as Francisco Pizarro completed his conquest of Peru. 1786 Shays's rebellion, an insurrection of Massachusetts farmers against the state government, began. 1842 The Treaty of Nanking was signed, ending the Opium Wars and ceding the island of Hong Kong to Britain. 1877 Brigham Young died in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1949 The U.S.S.R. tested their first atomic bomb. 1957 Strom Thurmond ended the longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history. He spoke for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill; the bill passed. 1966 The Beatles played their last major live concert at Candlestick Park, California. 1991 The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution. 2005 Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, destroying beachfront towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, displacing a million people, and killing more than 1,000.

The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/aug29.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory