Page 3: Historical Events In August - 29

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

1851  Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer   

1854  Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay).   

1855  Emil Pauer, composer.   

1861  American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.   

1861  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63.   

1862  2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins   

1862  Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels.   

1862  US Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operation   

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)   

1864  William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae   

1865  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).   

1874  Walter Field   

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

1877  Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT   

1877  Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II).   

1877  Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

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

1880  Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117   

1881  Edvin Kallstenius, composer   

1882  English cricketers lose to Australia on English soil for the inaugural 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  Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket".   

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

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 inaugural 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   

1884  Ehm Welk, writer   

1885  Boxing's inaugural heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey   

1885  Gottlieb Daimler patents the inaugural motor cycle   

1885  Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle   

1889  1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)   

1891  Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody).   

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

1894  E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962.   

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1387  Henry v: King of england (1413-22)/france (1416-19)   

1434  Janus pannonius: Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano motonobu: Kyoto japan, co-founder (kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus pitiscus: German mathematician (trigonometry)   

1609  Sassoferrato: [giovanni b salvi], italian painter (madonna)   

1619  Jean-baptiste colbert: French minister of naval/baron   

1628  John granville: 1st earl of bath, english royalist statesman   

1632  John locke: England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

0029  Death of John the baptist: Beheaded   

0886  Death of Basilius i: The macedonier, byzantine emperor (867-886),   

1093  Hugh i: Duke of burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  Death of King eystein i of norway: King eystein i of norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  Death of Duke albert iii of austria: Duke albert iii of austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John vi: Duke of brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Death of Ulrich von hutten: German poet/humanist/patriot,   

1526  Louis ii: King of hungary/bohemia,