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- 0284 Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
- 0708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1189 Ban Kulin wrote The Charter of Kulin, which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
- 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 Nndorfehrvr, now known as Belgrade.
- 1526 Battle of Mohcs: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
- 1526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
- 1533 Atahualpa, the last Incan king of Peru, is murdered at the request of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
- 1533 Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadores.
- 1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
- 1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
- 1756 Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
- 1756 Prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada
- 1758 First indian reservation established
- 1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
- 1786 Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
- 1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
- 1792 At least 900 die when the British warship Royal George sinks at Spithead while repairs are being carried out just below the waterline.
- 1810 Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters)
- 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.
- 1844 The first 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 (Manassas) begins
- 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
- 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).
- 1877 Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.
- 1882 English cricketers lose to Australia on English soil for the first time , a mock obituary in the Sporting Times then declares the death of English cricket, saying its ashes will be taken to Australia, the origin of the "Ashes" trophy
- 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.
- 1883 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion
- 1883 Thomas Ahearn, head of the Ottawa Street Railway Company, presides over a demonstration of his pioneering electric stove at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa. This is believed to be the world's very first dinner cooked on an all-electric stove.
- 1885 Boxing's first heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
- 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
- 1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
- 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
- 1896 The Chinese-American dish Chop Suey is invented by the personal chef to China's US Ambassador, while on a trip to New York City.
- 1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
- 1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
- 1909 World's first air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
- 1910 Japan changes Korea's name to Chsen 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.
- 1914 Arizonan is first vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
- 1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1916 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown
- 1918 Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
- 1919 Prince Edward Island removes ban on automobiles after several years of no cars.
- 1922 Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.
- 1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 1935 Queen Astrid of Belgium is killed in car accident in Switzerland
- 1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
- 1940 Visitor posting - kim smith born - USA
- 1942 American Jewish conference meets in New York to discuss agenda of Jewish Unity (Rescue vs. Zionist program).
- 1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves Danish government.
- 1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
- 1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
- 1946 Visitor posting - Wade Moore, property clerk born on this date - USA
- 1949 Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1949 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb
- 1950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
- 1950 Visitor posting - MARIANNE IS BORN
- 1952 Visitor posting - August 29 1952 Glen Leon Evans is born in Moline IL.
- 1954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens
- 1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
- 1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
- 1957 US Senator Strom Thurmond talks nonstop for 24 hours, 18 minutes to filibuster a civil rights bill.
- 1958 Air Force Academy opens
- 1958 United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1959 Visitor posting - August 29,1959 - Carol Patricia Allen (Dowe) was born in Niagara Falls, NY !!!!!!!!!
- 1962 The lower deck of the George Washington Bridge opens in New York and New Jersey
- 1962 Visitor posting - Richard Was born:) - USA
- 1964 USS Boxer and two LSD's arrived off the coast of Hispaniola to give medical aid and helicopter evacuation services to people in areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic badly damaged by Hurricane Cleo.
- 1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
- 1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
- 1965 Gemini V, with astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad and Gordon Cooper aboard, splashes down after eight days of orbiting the Earth.
- 1966 Last scheduled Beatles concert, in Candlestick Park San Francisco, California.
- 1966 Visitor posting - Shirley Johnson was born! - USA
- 1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"
- 1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
- 1970 Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
- 1970 First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the Boeing 747.
- 1971 Hank Aaron becomes the first player in baseball's National League to drive in 100+ runs in 11 seasons.
- 1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
- 1977 Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's record by stealing the 893rd base of his baseball career.
- 1978 Visitor posting - Nakeisha Watkins was born - USA
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Aneka - Japanese Boy
- 1981 Visitor posting - V.S.Aswini was born in Chittoor
- 1981 Visitor posting - Vickie Padgett married the love of her life, Charles Coughlin in Palm Bay Florida
- 1982 The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft fr Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 1983 Visitor posting - August 29 1983 - Elizabeth Rose C. born in Great Lakes, IL
- 1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
- 1986 Visitor posting - William Samuels was born
- 1987 Academy Award-winner Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, AZ, at age 63.
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
- 1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
- 1989 Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico a 6.7 quake was felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area
- 1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
- 1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
- 1991 John F Kennedy Jr wins his first law case
- 1991 Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1991 The Communist Party ends 75 years of power in the USSR.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Aug. 29, 1992 Jerome & Charmane Winston get married
- 1993 Visitor posting - August 29 1993 Tanya Collins was born at 1:46 am and Alixes Thomas was born at 2:30 pm
- 1993 Visitor posting - Anusha was born. - India [email protected]
- 1994 The Windsor and Hantsport Railway commences operation in Nova Scotia.
- 1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Morgan Alexandra Coburn was born in Birmingham, Alabama, US !
- 1996 A Russian plane carrying coal miners to work at a remote arctic island smashes into a mountain top, killing all 41 people aboard in the worst air disaster on Norwegian soil
- 1996 Visitor posting - jonah born terror begins - USA
- 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.
- 1997 DVD's outsell Laserdiscs in the U.S.
- 1997 The Japanese Supreme Court rules the government acted illegally when it deleted from a history textbook references to Japan's deadly experiments on Chinese during World War II.
- 1998 A Cuban airplane bursts into flames and crashes during takeoff from Quito, Ecuador, killing 79 people.
- 1998 Visitor posting - starr born - USA
- 2001 Visitor posting - August 29th 2001 Mea Bond was born
- 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.
- 2009 Chandrayaan-1 loses contact with ground control.
- 2009 Noel Gallagher leaves the British rock band Oasis.
- 2009 North Korea frees four South Korean fishermen seized last month when the boat strayed across the Northern Limit Line sea boundary.
- 2009 Seven people are found dead in the US state of Georgia and two are seriously wounded in one of the worst slayings in the state in 25 years.
- 2009 Several people are reported killed after fresh clashes erupt in the Kokang region of Shan State, northeastern Burma, near the border with China. A bomb is also thrown across the border.
- 2009 Two civilian members of the UNAMID peacekeeping force are kidnapped by armed men in Darfur, Sudan.
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