Page 3: Historical Events In August - 29

1849  On August - 29 titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)   

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

1854  Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay) on August - 29.   

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

1862  2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins on this day in history.   

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

1862  On this day in history uS Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation   

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 August - 29.   

1865  On August - 29 john Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54   

1871  On this day in history 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 August - 29.   

1876  On this day in history charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)   

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

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  Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher on August - 29.   

1880  Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117 on this day in history.   

1881  On August - 29 edvin Kallstenius, composer   

1882  On this day in history 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  On August - 29 australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

1885  On this day in history gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle   

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

1891  On this day in history michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody)   

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

1894  On August - 29 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 August - 29.   

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

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1632  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1123  On this day in history death of king Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)   

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 this day in history.   

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1526  Louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20 on August - 29.