Historical Events In August - 29

1849  On this day in history titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)   

1851  On August - 29 willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer   

1854  Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay) on this day in history.   

1855  On August - 29 emil Pauer, composer   

1861  On August - 29 american Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.   

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on August - 29.   

1862  On August - 29 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins   

1862  Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels on August - 29.   

1862  US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation on August - 29.   

1862  On this day in history p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)   

1864  On August - 29 william Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae   

1865  On this day in history john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54   

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) on this day in history.   

1874  On August - 29 walter Field   

1876  Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) on August - 29.   

1877  On August - 29 mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.   

1877  Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II) on this day in history.   

1877  On August - 29 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

1879  On August - 29 han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher   

1880  On August - 29 marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117   

1881  On this day in history edvin Kallstenius, composer   

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 on August - 29.   

1882  Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket" on this day in history.   

1883  On August - 29 seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion   

1883  On August - 29 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.   

1883  On August - 29 seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion   

1884  Ehm Welk, writer on this day in history.   

1885  On August - 29 boxing's first heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey   

1885  On August - 29 gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle   

1885  Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle on this day in history.   

1889  On August - 29 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)   

1891  Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody) on August - 29.   

1893  Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] on August - 29.   

1894  E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962 on this day in history.   

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1387  On this day in history birth of henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)   

1434  Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator was born on August - 29.   

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  On this day in history birth of bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)   

1609  On August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on this day in history.   

1628  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on this day in history.   

1632  On this day in history birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

0029  On August - 29 death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

1093  On August - 29 death of hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.   

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.   

1442  Death of John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) on August - 29.   

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20