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August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining.
Events
1200-1899
1900-1999 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers1911 - Ishi , considered the last Stone Age Native American , emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California 1943 - German -occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.1949 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb at Kazakhstan 1952 - Premiere of John Cage 's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado 1966 - Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco 1966 - Execution of Sayyid Qutb , an important theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood .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 Party1996 - A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen , killing all 141 aboard1997 - At least 98 villagers killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre , Algeria 1997 - Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky , the first of nine victims.
2000-2099
Births
1600_1899 1619 - French minister of finance 1632 - John Locke , philosopher (d. 1704 )1780 - Jean Ingres , French painter (d. 1867 )1805 - Frederick Maurice , English theologian (d. 1872 )1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , physician, writer (d. 1894 )1843 - David B. Hill , Governor of New York (d. 1910 )1862 - Andrew Fisher , fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928 )1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck , writer (d. 1949 ) 1876 - Charles F. Kettering , inventor of the electric starter1898 - Preston Sturges , screenwriter (d. 1959 )
1900-1999 1915 - Ingrid Bergman , actress (d. 1982 )1916 - George Montgomery, actor (d. 2000 )1917 - Isabel Sanford , actress1920 - Charlie Parker , jazz saxophonist, composer (d. 1955 )1923 - The Lord Attenborough , film director1924 - Dinah Washington , singer (d. 1963 )1924 - Consuelo Velázquez , Mexican songwriter and lyricist (d. 2005 ) 1933 - Arnold Koller , member of the Swiss Federal Council 1936 - John McCain , American politician1938 - Robert Rubin , former United States Secretary of the Treasury 1938 - Elliott Gould , actor 1939 - William Friedkin , film director1939 - Joel Schumacher , film director 1940 - Gary Gabelich , car racer and land world speed record holder1941 - Robin Leach , television host1946 - Bob Beamon , American long jumper1958 - Michael Jackson , singer/songwriter1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver , chairman of the Special Olympics 1962 - Rebecca De Mornay , actress1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello , singer1969 - Joe Swail , Northern Ireland snooker player
Deaths
800-1899
1900-1999 1904 - Murad V , deposed Ottoman sultan (b. 1840 )1930 - William Archibald Spooner , writer (b. 1844 )1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium 1947 - Manolete, bullfighter 1966 - Sayyid Qutb , theoretician.1972 - Lale Andersen , German singer ("Lili Marleen ")1975 - Eamon de Valera , Irish statesman1981 - Lowell Thomas , travel writer1982 - Ingrid Bergman , actress1987 - Lee Marvin , actor1989 - Peter Scott , explorer, naturalist and painter (b. 1909 )1997 - Christopher Maier, student killed by Angel Maturino Resendiz
2000_2099
Holidays and observances
Fictional August 28 - August 30 - July 29 - September 29 -- listing of all days
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August 29th (2045 words)
It is not stated that these audacious sarcasms were actually by Lilburne, for the pamphlet has neither author nor editor, neither printer nor publisher, named; but they will serve to illustrate the spirit of the times, when such pamphlets could be produced. August 1769 , at the advanced age of ninety-seven. August 29, 1750, there was decided a bet of that original kind for which the noted Earl of March (subsequently fourth Duke of Queensberry) shewed such a genius.
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