Page 3: Historical Events In August - 29

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

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer on August - 29.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1862  On August - 29 uS Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation   

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 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 this day in history.   

1874  Walter Field on this day in history.   

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

1877  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies on August - 29.   

1879  Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher on August - 29.   

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

1881  On August - 29 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 August - 29.   

1883  Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion on this day in history.   

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

1884  Ehm Welk, writer on this day in history.   

1885  Boxing's first heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey on this day in history.   

1885  On this day in history gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle   

1885  Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle on August - 29.   

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  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  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  On August - 29 birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on August - 29.   

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  John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701) was born on August - 29.   

1632  On August - 29 birth of john Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

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

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  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on this day in history.   

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

1526  On August - 29 louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20