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==Events==
* [[708]] - Copper coins are minted in [[Japan]] for the first time (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[August 10]], [[708]]).
*[[1189]] - [[Ban Kulin]] wrote ''[[Ban Kulin#The Charter|The Charter of Kulin]]'', which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] statehood.
*[[1350]] - [[Battle of Winchelsea]] (or [[Les Espagnols sur Mer]]): The [[England|English]] [[naval fleet]] under King [[Edward III of England|Edward III]] defeats a [[Crown of Castile|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]].
*[[1533]] - [[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire]]: [[Inca]] [[emperor]] [[Atahualpa]] is [[Execution (legal)|executed]] in [[Cajamarca]] by the [[garrote]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] invaders known as [[Conquistadores]].
*[[1541]] - The [[Ottoman Turks]] capture [[Buda]], the [[capital]] of the [[Hungarian Kingdom]].
*[[1655]] - [[Warsaw]] falls without resistance to a small force under the command of [[Charles X Gustav of Sweden]] during [[Deluge (history)|The Deluge]].
*[[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.
*[[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]].
*[[1862]] - [[Second Battle of Bull Run]]
*[[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 of Japan|prefectures]] as local centers of administration. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[July 14]], [[1871]]).
*[[1882]] - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of [[The Ashes]]. This is the date according to the mock obituary in [[The Sporting Times]].
*[[1885]] - [[Gottlieb Daimler]] patents the world's first [[motorcycle]].
*[[1895]] - The formation of the [[Rugby Football League|Northern Rugby Union]] at the [[George Hotel]], [[Huddersfield]], [[England]].
*[[1898]] - The [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]] tire company is founded.
*[[1907]] - The [[Quebec Bridge]] collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
*[[1910]] - [[Japan]] changes [[Korea|Korea's]] name to [[Joseon|Chōsen]] and appoints a [[governor-general]] to rule its new [[colony]].
*[[1911]] - [[Ishi]], considered the last [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] to make contact with [[European Americans]], emerges from the wilderness of northeastern [[California]].
*[[1915]] - [[US Navy]] salvage divers raise [[USS F-4 (SS-23)|F-4]], first U.S. [[submarine]] sunk in accident.
*[[1918]] - [[Bapaume]] taken by [[Australian Corps]] and [[Canadian Corps]] in the [[Hundred Days Offensive]]
*[[1922]] - [[Turkey|Turkish]] forces set [[Great Fire of Smyrna|fire]] to [[Smyrna]], in [[Asia Minor]].
*[[1930]] - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of [[St Kilda, Scotland|St Kilda]] are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of [[Scotland]].
*[[1943]] - [[Occupation of Denmark|German-occupied Denmark]] scuttles most of its [[navy]];[[Germany]] dissolves [[Denmark|Danish]] government.
*[[1944]] - [[Slovak National Uprising]] takes place as 60,000 [[Slovaks|Slovak]] troops turn against the [[Nazism|Nazi]]s.
*[[1949]] - [[Soviet atomic bomb project]]: The [[Soviet Union]] tests its first [[atomic bomb]], known as ''[[First Lightning]]'' or ''[[Joe 1]]'', at [[Semipalatinsk Test Site|Semipalatinsk]], [[Kazakhstan]].
*[[1958]] - [[United States Air Force Academy]] opens in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].
*[[1962]] - The lower deck of the [[George Washington Bridge]] opens in [[New York]] and [[New Jersey]]
*[[1966]] - Last scheduled [[The Beatles|Beatles]] [[concert]], in [[Monster Park|Candlestick Park]] [[San Francisco, California]].
*[[1970]] - First flight of the [[McDonnell Douglas]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] jetliner, a competitor to the [[Boeing 747]].
* 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]] suspends all activities of the [[Soviet Communist Party]].
*[[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 [[Armed Islamic Group|GIA]] in the [[Rais massacre]], [[Algeria]].
*[[2003]] - [[Ayatollah]] [[Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]], the [[Shia Muslim]] leader in [[Iraq]], is [[assassin]]ated in a [[terrorism|terrorist]] bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a [[mosque]] in [[Najaf]].
*[[2005]] - [[Hurricane Katrina]] [[Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans|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.

==Births==
*[[1619]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]], French minister of finance (d. [[1683]])
*[[1628]] - [[John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath]], English royalist statesman (d. [[1701]])
*[[1632]] - [[John Locke]], English philosopher (d. [[1704]])
*[[1694]] - [[Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (d. [[1715]])
*[[1725]] - [[Charles Townshend]], English politician (d. [[1767]])
*[[1728]] - [[Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony]], Electress of Bavaria (d. [[1797]])
*[[1756]] - [[Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde]], Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. [[1845]])
* 1756 - [[Jan Śniadecki]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1830]])
*[[1777]] - [[Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin]], founder of [[Sinology]] (d. [[1853]])
*[[1780]] - [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Jean Ingres]], French painter (d. [[1867]])
*[[1805]] - [[Frederick Maurice]], English theologian (d. [[1872]])
*[[1809]] - [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]], American physician (d. [[1894]])
*[[1810]] - [[Juan Bautista Alberdi]], founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. [[1884]])
*[[1843]] - [[David B. Hill]], Governor of New York (d. [[1910]])
*[[1844]] - [[Edward Carpenter]], English poet (d. [[1929]])
*[[1862]] - [[Andrew Fisher]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1928]])
* 1862 - [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1949]])
*[[1871]] - [[Albert Lebrun]], French politician (d. [[1950]])
*[[1876]] - [[Charles F. Kettering]], American inventor (d. [[1958]])
*[[1898]] - [[Preston Sturges]], American filmmaker (d. [[1959]])
*[[1901]] - [[Aurel Joliat]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[1986]])
*[[1905]] - [[Werner Forssmann]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1979]])
*[[1905]] - [[Dhyan Chand]], Indian hockey player (d. [[1979]])
*[[1912]] - [[Wolfgang Suschitzky]], Austrian-Polish cinematographer
* 1912 - [[Barry Sullivan (actor)|Barry Sullivan]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
*[[1915]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (d. [[1982]])
*[[1916]] - [[George Montgomery]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
* 1916 - [[Luther Davis]], American playwright
*[[1917]] - [[Isabel Sanford]], American actress (d. [[2004]])
*[[1920]] - [[Charlie Parker]], American musician (d. [[1955]])
*[[1923]] - [[Richard Attenborough]], English film director
* 1923 - [[Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley|Marmaduke Hussey]], BBC Chairman (d. [[2006]])
*[[1924]] - [[Consuelo Velázquez]], Mexican songwriter (d. [[2005]])
* 1924 - [[Dinah Washington]], American singer (d. [[1963]])
*[[1926]] - [[María Dolores Pradera]], Spanish melodic singer
*[[1928]] - [[Charles Gray (actor)|Charles Gray]], English actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[1929]] - [[Thom Gunn]], British poet (d. [[2004]])
*[[1930]] - [[Jacques Bouchard]], Quebec advertising executive (d. [[2006]])
*[[1931]] - [[Stelios Kazantzidis]], Greek singer (d. [[2001]])
* 1931 - [[Lise Payette]], Quebec politician, writer and columnist
*[[1933]] - [[Arnold Koller]], Swiss Federal Councilor
*[[1935]] - [[William Friedkin]], American film director
*[[1936]] - [[John McCain]], American politician
*[[1937]] - [[James Florio]], Governor of New Jersey
*[[1938]] - [[Elliott Gould]], American actor
* 1938 - [[Robert Rubin]], [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]]
* 1939 - [[Joel Schumacher]], American film director
*[[1940]] - [[Gary Gabelich]], American race car driver (d. [[1984]])
*[[1941]] - [[Robin Leach]], English television host
* 1942 - [[James Glennon]], American cinematographer (d. [[2006]])
*[[1942]] - [[John Heuser]], Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis
*[[1945]] - [[Wyomia Tyus]], American athlete
*[[1946]] - [[Bob Beamon]], American jumper
*[[1947]] - [[James Hunt]], English race car driver (d. [[1993]])
*[[1952]] - [[Karen Hesse]], American children's writer
* 1952 - [[Dave Malone]], American rock guitarist
*[[1953]] - [[James Quesada]], Nicaraguan-American anthropologist
*[[1954]] - [[Michael P. Kube-McDowell]], American science fiction novelist
*[[1956]] - [[GG Allin]], American singer (d. [[1993]])
* 1956 - [[Viv Anderson]], English former footballer
* 1956 - [[Mark Morris]], American choreographer
*[[1957]] - [[Jerry D. Bailey]], American racing jockey
*[[1958]] - [[Michael Jackson]], American singer
* 1958 - [[Lenny Henry]], British comic
*[[1959]] - [[Ernesto Rodrigues]], Portuguese composer
* 1959 - [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]], Telugu film actor
* 1959 - [[Timothy Perry Shriver]], Member of the Kennedy Family
* 1959 - [[Chris Hadfield]], Canadian astronaut
* 1959 - [[Rebecca De Mornay]], American actress
*[[1960]] - [[Tony MacAlpine]], American shred guitarist
*[[1961]] - [[Carsten Fischer]], German field hockey player
*[[1962]] - [[Hiroki Kikuta]], Japanese composer
*[[1963]] - [[Elizabeth Fraser]], Scottish singer
*[[1965]] - [[Dina Spybey]], American actress
*[[1967]] - [[Anton Newcombe]], American musician ([[The Brian Jonestown Massacre]])
*[[1969]] - [[Me'Shell NdegéOcello]], American singer
* 1969 - [[Joe Swail]], Northern Irish snooker player
*[[1970]] - [[Jacco Eltingh]], Dutch tennis player
*[[1971]] - [[Carla Gugino]], American actress
*[[1972]] - [[Bae Yong Joon]], South Korean actor
*[[1973]] - [[Adam Sessler]], American TV show host
* 1973 - [[Olivier Jacque]], motorcyclist
*[[1974]] - [[Kumi Tanioka]], Japanese composer
*[[1975]] - [[Dante Basco]], Filipino-American actor
*[[1976]] - [[Stephen Carr]], Irish footballer
* 1976 - [[Kevin Kaesviharn]], National Football League player
* 1976 - [[Pablo Mastroeni]], American soccer player
* 1976 - [[Jon Dahl Tomasson]], Danish footballer
*[[1977]] - [[John O'Brien (soccer)|John Patrick O'Brien]], American soccer player
* 1977 - [[Aaron Rowand]], American baseball player
* 1977 - [[Roy Oswalt]], American baseball player
* 1977 - [[Charlie Pickering]], Australian comedian
*[[1978]] - [[Celestine Babayaro]], Nigerian footballer
*[[1979]] - [[Ali Eftekhari]], Iranian scientist
* 1979 - [[Chieu Luu]], Canadian journalist
*[[1980]] - [[David Desrosiers]], Canadian musician
* 1980 - [[Chris Simms]], American football player
* 1980 - [[David West (basketball)|David West]], American basketball player
* 1980 - [[Nicholas Tse]], Hong Kong singer and actor
*[[1981]] - [[Lanny Barbie]], Canadian adult actress
* 1981 - [[Geneviève Jeanson]], Quebec bicycle racer
*[[1982]] - [[A+ (rapper)|A+]], American rapper
* 1982 - [[Carlos Delfino]], Argentinean basketball player
*[[1985]] - [[Pouyan Afkary]], Iranian-American musician ([[Scary Kids Scaring Kids]])
* 1985 - [[Jeffrey Licon]], American actor
*[[1986]] - [[Lauren Collins]], Canadian actress
*[[1987]] - [[Tony Kane]], Irish footballer


==Deaths==
* [[886]] - [[Basil I]], [[Byzantine Emperor]] (b. [[811]])
*[[1093]] - [[Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy]] (b. [[1057]])
*[[1123]] - King [[Eystein I of Norway]] (b. ca. [[1088]])
*[[1395]] - Duke [[Albert III of Austria]] (b. [[1349]])
*[[1442]] - [[John VI, Duke of Brittany]] (b. [[1389]])
*[[1526]] - King [[Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia]] (killed in battle) (b. [[1506]])
*[[1542]] - [[Cristovão da Gama]], Portuguese soldier (born c. [[1510s|1516]])
*[[1657]] - [[John Lilburne]], English dissenter
*[[1712]] - [[Gregory King]], English statistician (b. [[1648]])
*[[1769]] - [[Edmund Hoyle]], English author and teacher (b. [[1672]])
*[[1780]] - [[Jacques-Germain Soufflot]], French architect (b. [[1713]])
*[[1799]] - [[Pope Pius VI]] (b. [[1717]])
*[[1844]] - [[Edmund Ignatius Rice]], Irish founder of the [[Congregation of Christian Brothers|Christian Brothers]] and [[Presentation Brothers]] (b. [[1762]])
*[[1856]] - [[Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck]], British Christian writer (b. [[1778]])
*[[1877]] - [[Brigham Young]], American religious leader and western settler (b. [[1801]])
*[[1889]] - [[Stefan Dunjov]], [[Banat Bulgarian]] military figure (b. [[1815]])
*[[1891]] - [[Pierre Lallement]], inventor of the [[bicycle]] (b. [[1843]] or [[1844]])
*[[1904]] - [[Murad V]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1840]])
*[[1930]] - [[William Archibald Spooner]], English writer (b. [[1844]])
*[[1931]] - [[David Abercrombie]], [[Abercrombie & Fitch]] founder
*[[1935]] - [[Astrid of the Belgians|Queen Astrid of Belgium]] (b. [[1905]])
*[[1966]] - [[Sayyid Qutb]], Egyptian theoretician (b. [[1906]])
*[[1968]] - [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American soldier and planner (b. [[1881]])
*[[1972]] - [[Lale Andersen]], German singer (b. [[1905]])
*[[1975]] - [[Eamon de Valera]], first [[Taoiseach]] and third [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1882]])
*[[1976]] - [[Jimmy Reed]], American blues singer (b. [[1925]])
* 1976 - [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]], [[Bengali people|Bengali]] poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. [[1899]])
*[[1977]] - [[Brian McGuire]], Australian racing driver (b. [[1945]])
*[[1981]] - [[Lowell Thomas]], American writer and broadcaster (b. [[1892]])
*[[1982]] - [[Ingrid Bergman]], Swedish actress (b. [[1915]])
*[[1984]] - [[Muhammad Naguib]], Egyptian statesman (b. [[1901]])
*[[1987]] - [[Archie Campbell]], American country music comedian (b. [[1914]])
* 1987 - [[Lee Marvin]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
*[[1989]] - [[Peter Scott]], English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. [[1909]])
*[[1992]] - [[Teddy Turner]], comedian (b. [[1917]])
*[[1995]] - [[Frank Perry]], American film director (b. [[1930]])
*[[2000]] - [[Willie Maddren]], English former footballer (b. [[1951]])
*[[2001]] - [[Francisco Rabal]], Spanish actor (b. [[1926]])
*[[2002]] - [[Alan MacNaughtan]], Scottish actor (b. [[1920]])
*[[2003]] - Ayatollah [[Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]], Iraqi political leader (b.[[1939]])
* 2003 - [[Patrick Procktor]], English artist (b. [[1936]])
* 2003 - [[Michel Constantin]], French film actor (b. [[1924]])
*[[2004]] - [[Hans Vonk]], Dutch conductor (b. [[1942]])
*[[2007]] - [[Richard Jewell]], central figure in the 1996 [[Centennial Olympic Park bombing]] (b. [[1962]])
* 2007 - [[Pierre Messmer]], French politician and Prime Minister (b. [[1916]])
* 2007 - [[Alfred Peet]], Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. [[1920]])
* 2007 - [[James Muir Cameron Fletcher]], New Zealand industrialist (b. [[1914]])


==Holidays and observances==
*[[Eastern Orthodoxy|Eastern Orthodox Christianity]] and [[Calendar of Saints|Roman Catholic Church]] commemorate the beheading of [[John the Baptist]] with a feast day.
*[[Slovakia]] - [[Slovak National Uprising]] Day ([[1944]], against the [[Nazis]]).
*The first day of [[Thoth]] - which is the first day of the [[Egyptian calendar]]. [[Thoth]] is the [[Ibis]]-headed god of knowledge.

==External links==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/29 BBC: On This Day]
* {{NYT On this day|month=08|day=29}}
*[http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Aug&day=29 On This Day in Canada]
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