Page 3: Historical Events In August - 29

1849  Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) on August - 29.   

1851  On this day in history willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer   

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

1855  On this day in history emil Pauer, composer   

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

1861  On August - 29 franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63   

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

1862  On this day in history battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels   

1862  US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation on this day in history.   

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) on this day in history.   

1864  William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae on this day in history.   

1865  John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 on August - 29.   

1871  On August - 29 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).   

1874  Walter Field on this day in history.   

1876  On August - 29 charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)   

1877  Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT on this day in history.   

1877  On this day in history alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)   

1877  On this day in history 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  Edvin Kallstenius, composer on August - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

1882  Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket" on August - 29.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

1884  On August - 29 ehm Welk, writer   

1885  On this day in history 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 first motor cycle on this day in history.   

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

1889  On this day in history 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)   

1891  Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody) on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]   

1894  On this day in history e Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962   

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1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) was born on this day in history.   

1434  On this day in history birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on this day in history.   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.   

1609  On this day in history birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

1619  On this day in history birth of jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron   

1628  On this day in history birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

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

0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on this day in history.   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on this day in history.   

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

1395  On this day in history death of duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)   

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 August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20