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Today in History ~ August 29
Slovak National Uprising Day
Events0284 - Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome, Reign of Diocletian (Era of Martyrs), begins
1178 - Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1526 - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
1533 - Atahualpa - last of the Inca rulers - was strangled at the orders of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. The Inca empire died with him. [H]
1640 - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1655 - Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw
1664 - Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1708 - Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
1742 - Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
1758 - New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
1776 - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1786 - Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1792 - English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1793 - Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
1842 - Gr Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1854 - Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station) [H]
1862 - US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1864 - William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
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
1896 - Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1909 - World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1914 - 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914 - Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in S.F. via the Panama Canal
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
1929 - German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1939 - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1941 - German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1943 - After three years of Nazi military occupation, the Danish government resigned and abandoned its policy of co-existence with Germany. Denmark managed to scuttle most of its naval ships. so as not to be taken by Germany The decision sought to support the Danish Resistance, which was becoming stronger in its attacks against the German occupier.
1944 - 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
1945 - British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 - Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1949 - At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, codenamed "First Lightning"
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 - South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then a Democrat) ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking for more than 24 hours.
1958 - Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1962 - US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1964 - "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances
1964 - Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" is released
1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
1966 - The Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1967 - Final television episode of The Fugitive
1967 - Yankees longest day The Red Sox take the 1st game 2-1 in 9 the Yanks win second game in 20 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
1968 - Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
1970 - The Chicano Moratorium took place.
1973 - Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.
1975 - Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1977 - Lou Brock - Cardinals - eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year old career stolen bases record to a total to 893. The Padres won game 4-3.
1988 - Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1990 - Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1991 - In a stunning blow to the Soviet Communist Party, the Supreme Soviet legislature voted to suspend the activities of the organization and freeze its bank accounts because of the party's role in the failed coup.
1991 - In Kiev, the republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to remain in the Soviet Union and negotiate a loose federation.
1992 - An FBI report said the number of violent crimes increased 5 percent in 1991; people under 25 accounted for nearly half of those arrested.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send 3,000 more relief troops to Somalia to guard food shipments.
1994 - Israel and the PLO signed a new agreement to shift West Bank administrative functions to the Palestinian National Authority.
1995 - Eduard Shevardnadze, the head of state in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, was slightly injured when a bomb exploded near his motorcade in Tbilisi, the capital.
1996 - In a rousing climax to the Democratic convention in Chicago, President Clinton appealed for a second term, declaring, "Hope is back in America." The convention also nominated Al Gore for a second term as vice president. Earlier in the day, President Clinton's chief political strategist, Dick Morris, resigned amid a scandal over his relationship with a prostitute and letting her listen in on phone conversations with the president.
1997 - Hooded men killed more than 300 people in an Algerian farm village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency began.
1997 - Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the country's Education Ministry broke the law by removing mention of a Japanese World War II atrocity from historian Saburo Ienaga's high school textbook.
2000 - Pope John Paul II laid down moral guidelines for medical research in the 21st century, endorsing organ donation and adult stem cell study, but condemning human cloning and embryo experiments.
2000 - President Clinton ended a four-day trip to Africa with a brief visit to Cairo, where he sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak in pursuing a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
2001 - George Rivas, the ringleader of the biggest prison breakout in Texas history, was sentenced to death for killing an Irving policeman, Aubrey Hawkins, while on the run.
Birthdays Today
1387 - Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1561 - Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)
1632 - English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset, England,
1780 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes (physician, author: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Elsie Venner; poet: Old Ironsides)
1862 - P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)
1876 - Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
1898 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund P Biden], Chic, director (Sullivan's Travels)
1904 - Werner Forssman, German urologist (First to catheterize his own heart) (Nobel 1956)
1912 - Barry Sullivan (Patrick Barry) (actor: The Bad and the Beautiful, The Road West, Oh, God!, Earthquake, The Bastard)
1915 or 1918 - Ingrid Bergman (Academy Award-winning actress: Gaslight [1944], Anastasia [1966], Murder on the Orient Express [1974]; Casablanca; Emmy Award-winner: The Turn of the Screw [1959-60], A Woman Called Golda [1981-82])
1916 - George Montgomery (George Letz) (actor: Battle of the Bulge, The Texas Rangers, Young People, Cimarron City)
1919 - Billy Cox (baseball)
1920 - Charlie (Charles Christoper) Parker, Jr. ('The Bird': musician: saxophone: Now's the Time, Yardbird Suite Confirmation, Relaxin' at Camarillo)
1921 - Wendell Scott (auto racer)
1923 - Sir Richard Attenborough (actor: Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape; director: Chaplin, Ghandi, A Bridge Too Far)
1924 - Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones) (singer: What A Diff'rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You, Our Love is Here to Stay, For All We Know, Baby [You've Got What It Takes], A Rockin' Good Way [To Mess Around and Fall
in Love], Baby Get Lost, This Bitter Earth; w/Lionel Hampton band [1943-46])
1925 - Donald O'Connor, Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1928 - Mickey McDermott (baseball)
1928 - Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1933 - Isabel Sanford (Emmy Award-winning actress: The Jeffersons [1980-81], Desperate Moves, Love at First Bite)
1938 - Elliott Gould (Goldstein) (actor: Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H, The Long Good-Bye, The Night They Raided Minsky's)
1939 - William Friedkin (Academy Award-winning director: The French Connection [1971], The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band)
1941 - Ellen Geer (actress: Hard Traveling, Harold and Maude, The Jimmy Stewart Show, Beauty and the Beast)
1941 - Robin Leach - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
1947 - Bob Lutz (tennis)
1949 - Tony Greene (football)
1950 - Doug DeCinces (baseball)
1958 - Michael (Joe) Jackson "King of Pop"
1962 - Rebecca DeMornay actress-Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin, Backdraft
Famous deaths
0886 - Basilius I, the Macedonian, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors [H]
1769 - Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
1877 - Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1941 - Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
1946 - J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
1972 - Rene Leibowitz, conductor/composer, dies at 59
1973 - Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38
1975 - Eamon de Valera, Irish president (1937..59), dies at 92 Born in New York in 1882, de Valera emigrated to Ireland as a child and joined the Easter Rebellion of 1916 against British rule. Saved from execution because of his American citizenship, and released under a general amnesty in 1917. [H]
1981 - Broadcaster and world traveler Lowell Thomas died in Pawling, N.Y., at age 89.
1987 - Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz., at age 63. [H]
1990 - Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
1991 - Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia,
1992 - Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
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