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284Aug 29Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) became emperor of Rome. Reign of Diocletian (Era of Martyrs), began.
1178Aug 29Anti-Pope Callistus III gave pope title to Alexander III.
1484Aug 29Cardinal Cibo was crowned as Pope Innocent VIII.
1526Aug 29Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushed a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs.
1640Aug 29English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland.
1655Aug 29Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupied Warsaw.
1664Aug 29Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patented a wooden firespout in Amsterdam.
1708Aug 29French Canadian and Indian forces attacked the village of Haverhill, Mass., killing 16 settlers.
1742Aug 29Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) published his “Short Treatise” on the card game whist.
1758Aug 29New Jersey Legislature formed the 1st Indian reservation.
1769Aug 29Edmond Hoyle (b.1672), English games expert, died.
1776Aug 29Americans withdrew from Manhattan to Westchester.
1792Aug 29The English warship Royal George capsized in Spithead and 900 people were killed.
1793Aug 29Slavery was abolished in the French colony of Santo Domingo (Haiti).
1799Aug 29Pope Pius VI (b.1717) died in Valence, France.
1854Aug 29Daniel Halladay patented a self-governing windmill.
1862Aug 29The US Bureau of Engraving & Printing began operation.
1869Aug 29John Wesley Powell and his men successfully navigated the last rapid in the Grand Canyon and reached the mouth of the Virgin River in Nevada.
1877Aug 29Brigham Young (76), the second president of the Mormon Church, died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1879Aug 29Jeanne Jugan (b.1792), a French nun, died. She had helped found the Little Sisters of the Poor. In 2009 she was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church.
1883Aug 29Seismic sea waves, created by Krakatoa eruption, created a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after explosion.
1885Aug 29Gottlieb Daimler received a German patent for a motorcycle.
1896Aug 29The Chinese-American dish chop suey was invented in New York City by the chef to visiting Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang.
1914Aug 294th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught.
1916Aug 29Congress created the US Naval reserve.
1916Aug 29Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collided and 1000 people were killed.
1929Aug 29John Jacob Raskob (1879-1950), former General Motors executive, announced the construction of the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building.
1936Aug 29John McCain, later Arizona Senator and 2008 US presidential candidate, was born at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone.
1938Aug 29Elliott Gould (Goldstein) actor, was born. His films included Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H, The Long Good-Bye, The Night They Raided Minskys.
1939Aug 29William Friedkin, director (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection), was born in Chicago.
1942Aug 29The American Red Cross announced that Japan had refused to allow safe conduct for the passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war.
1943Aug 29Responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark managed to scuttle most of its naval ships.
1944Aug 2915,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
1945Aug 29U.S. airborne troops landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo, beginning the occupation of Japan.
1946Aug 29J.E. Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, was executed.
1949Aug 29The USSR successfully detonated its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. It was a copy of the Fat Man bomb and had a yield of 21 kilotons.
1952Aug 29In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bombed Pyongyang, North Korea.
1954Aug 29The SF International Airport’s (SFO) Terminal 2 opened with a ceremony led by Mayor Robinson. Mills Field became SF Airport.
1956Aug 29French government sent troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis.
1958Aug 29Air Force Academy, established in 1954, opened its doors near Colorado Springs, Colo.
1962Aug 29A US U-2 flight saw SAM launch pads in Cuba.
1964Aug 29“Funny Thing Happened” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances.
1965Aug 29Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles (“Pete”) Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
1966Aug 29The Beatles concluded their fourth American tour with their last public concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1967Aug 29Charles Darrow (b.1889), self-claimed inventor of Monopoly, died.
1968Aug 29Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie was chosen to be the Democratic nominee for vice president at the party’s convention in Chicago.
1972Aug 29Rene Leibowitz (b.1913), Warsaw-born French conductor and composer, died in Paris.
1973Aug 29Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.
1981Aug 29Lowell Thomas (89), broadcaster and world traveler died in Pawling, N.Y.
1983Aug 29William Goyen (b.1915), Texas-born novelist and playwright, died in Los Angeles. His 1st novel was “House of Breath” (1950).
1985Aug 29Joann Hobson (16) of Stockton, Ca., went missing. Her remains were found in 2012 in a compacted well in Linden, Ca., and attributed to Speed Freak Killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog.
1987Aug 29Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz., at age 63.
1988Aug 29On the presidential campaign trail, Democrat Michael Dukakis sought to counter Republican George Bush’s salvos against the Massachusetts prison furlough program, while Bush continued to charge that Dukakis was soft on defense.
1989Aug 29Seven bombs believed set off by drug traffickers exploded in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia.
1990Aug 29A defiant Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared in a television interview that America could not defeat Iraq, saying, “I do not beg before anyone.”
1991Aug 29In a stunning blow to the Soviet Communist Party, the Supreme Soviet legislature voted to suspend the activities of the organization and freeze its bank accounts because of the party’s role in the failed coup.
1992Aug 29About 13,000 people staged an anti-extremist rally in Rostock, Germany, even as right-wingers continued attacks on immigrants.
1994Aug 29At the end of a weekend referendum, Bosnian Serbs overwhelmingly rejected what was billed as a last-chance peace plan.
1995Aug 29At the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles, without the jury present, tape recordings of police detective Mark Fuhrman were played in which Fuhrman could be heard spouting racial invectives.
1996Aug 29Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader chose Winona LaDuke as his running mate.
1997Aug 29In NYC some 7,000 protestors marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest police brutality and the assault on Abner Louima.
1998Aug 29Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company offer.
1999Aug 29Hurricane “Dennis” wallowed along the coast toward the Carolinas, prompting evacuation orders for the fragile Outer Banks barrier islands.
2000Aug 29Montana Gov. Marc Racicot asked Pres. Clinton to declare the state a federal disaster area due to the wildfires.
2001Aug 29George Rivas, the ringleader of the biggest prison breakout in Texas history, was sentenced to death for killing an Irving, Tx., policeman, Aubrey Hawkins, while on the run.
2002Aug 29The federal government approved a plan to store Colorado River water under the Mohave Desert and tap it for use by Southern California during times of drought.
2003Aug 29Rep. Bill Janklow, R-S.D., was charged with felony manslaughter in a car accident that claimed the life of motorcyclist Randolph E. Scott. Janklow was later convicted and served 100 days in jail.
2004Aug 29Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan to protest President Bush’s foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates gathered to nominate the president for a second term. Organizers estimated up to 400,000 participants.
2005Aug 29In NYC 8 former executives of the KPMG accounting firm were indicted for fraud. KPMG admitted setting up fraudulent tax shelters and agreed to pay $456 million in penalties.
2006Aug 29President George Bush visited New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region to offer comfort and hope to residents.
2007Aug 29Fellow Republicans called on Idaho Sen. Larry Craig to resign and party leaders pushed him from senior committee posts as fallout continued over his arrest at a Minneapolis airport restroom and guilty plea to disorderly conduct.
2008Aug 29John McCain, on his 72nd birthday, tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (44) to be his vice presidential running mate.
2009Aug 29California Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Mariposa County due to a wild fire in Yosemite National Park.
2010Aug 29In Britain 2 men and a woman were arrested in connection with allegations that Pakistani cricket players were involved in a betting scam.
2011Aug 29A US federal judge blocked enforcement of Alabama’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration.
2012Aug 29A US military spokesman said a team of 200 US Marines has begun patrolling Guatemala’s western coast this week in an unprecedented operation to beat drug traffickers in the Central America region.
2013Aug 29The United States said it has transferred two men from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the government of Algeria as part of its ongoing effort to close the controversial prison.
2014Aug 29The US imposed sanctions on more than 25 Iranian businesses and individuals suspected of working to expand Iran’s nuclear program.

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