Page 3: Historical Events In August - 29

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

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

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

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  On August - 29 franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63   

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

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

1862  US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation on August - 29.   

1862  P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911) on this day in history.   

1864  On August - 29 william Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae   

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 August - 29.   

1874  On August - 29 walter Field   

1876  On August - 29 charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)   

1877  On this day in history mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.   

1877  On this day in history alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)   

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

1879  On August - 29 han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher   

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

1881  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion   

1884  On August - 29 ehm Welk, writer   

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  Gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle on this day in history.   

1885  On August - 29 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  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 this day in history.   

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

1476  On this day in history birth of kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1628  On August - 29 birth of john Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)   

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

0029  On this day in history death of john the Baptist, beheaded   

0886  Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies on August - 29.   

1093  Death of Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) on August - 29.   

1123  Death of King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) on August - 29.   

1395  Death of Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) on this day in history.   

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 August - 29.   

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