Page 3: Historical Events In August - 29

1849  Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97) on this day in history.   

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

1854  On this day in history self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)   

1855  On this day in history emil Pauer, composer   

1861  On this day in history 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  2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins on August - 29.   

1862  On August - 29 battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels   

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

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) on August - 29.   

1864  On this day in history william Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae   

1865  On August - 29 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 August - 29.   

1874  On August - 29 walter Field   

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

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

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

1877  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on this day in history.   

1879  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

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

1883  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

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  Gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle on August - 29.   

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  On August - 29 michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody)   

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

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  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 August - 29.   

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

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on this day in history.   

1619  Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron was born on August - 29.   

1628  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.   

0029  Death of John the Baptist, beheaded on August - 29.   

0886  On August - 29 basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

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

1123  On August - 29 death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)   

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

1442  On August - 29 death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on August - 29.   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on this day in history.