WillDekkard
08-29-2010, 05:27 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - August 29th
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* 708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
* 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 Nαndorfehιrvαr, now known as Belgrade.
* 1526 Battle of Mohαcs: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
* 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 The Deluge.
* 1756 Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
* 1758 The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
* 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 as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
* 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
* 1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded.
* 1903 The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
* 1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
* 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.
* 1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
* 1916 The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
* 1918 Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive
* 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.
* 1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves the Danish government.
* 1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
* 1949 Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
* 1958 United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* 1966 The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
* 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 fόr Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
* 1991 Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
* 1991 Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
* 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 of Algeria 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 $80 billion in damage.
* 2007 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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This Date in History - August 29th
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* 708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
* 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 Nαndorfehιrvαr, now known as Belgrade.
* 1526 Battle of Mohαcs: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
* 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 The Deluge.
* 1756 Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
* 1758 The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
* 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 as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
* 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.
* 1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded.
* 1903 The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
* 1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
* 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.
* 1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
* 1916 The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
* 1918 Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive
* 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.
* 1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves the Danish government.
* 1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
* 1949 Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
* 1958 United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* 1966 The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
* 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 fόr Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
* 1991 Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
* 1991 Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
* 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 of Algeria 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 $80 billion in damage.
* 2007 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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