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  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  Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

1862  Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels on this day in history.   

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

1862  On August - 29 p M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)   

1864  William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae on August - 29.   

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

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  On August - 29 walter Field   

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 August - 29.   

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 this day in history.   

1879  On this day in history han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher   

1880  On this day in history marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117   

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

1889  1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI) on August - 29.   

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

1893  On August - 29 aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 29 birth of sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna)   

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

0886  On this day in history basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies   

1093  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1523  On this day in history ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35   

1526  On this day in history louis II, King of Hungary/Bohemia, dies in accident at 20