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  On this day in history self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)   

1855  On this day in history emil Pauer, composer   

1861  American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina on August - 29.   

1861  On August - 29 franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63   

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

1862  Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels on August - 29.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) on this day in history.   

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

1877  Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II) on August - 29.   

1877  On August - 29 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies   

1879  Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher on this day in history.   

1880  Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117 on this day in history.   

1881  Edvin Kallstenius, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1883  On August - 29 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1885  On this day in history gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle   

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

1891  Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody) on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history birth of janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting) was born on August - 29.   

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

1609  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna) was born on August - 29.   

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  John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance was born on August - 29.   

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

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

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 August - 29.   

1442  On this day in history death of john VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

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