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29 Aug 1178
Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
29 Aug 1475
Treaty of Picquigny King Louis XI buys English contacts
29 Aug 1484
Giovanni Battista Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
29 Aug 1540
Emperor Karel deprives city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges
29 Aug 1612
Battle of Surat India English fleet beats Portuguese
29 Aug 1655
Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
29 Aug 1664
Adriaen Pieck and Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
29 Aug 1708
Haverhill Massachusetts destroyed by French & Indians
29 Aug 1742
Edmond Hoyle published his Short Treatise on the card game whist
29 Aug 1756
Prussian Libya occupies Saxson beginning 7 years War
29 Aug 1758
New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
29 Aug 1776
Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
29 Aug 1786
Shays Rebellion in Springfield Massachusetts
29 Aug 1792
British man owar HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead more than 800 killed
29 Aug 1793
Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
29 Aug 1825
Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil
29 Aug 1831
Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
29 Aug 1842
Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking ending the Opium war
29 Aug 1844
1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal Indians win
29 Aug 1854
Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
29 Aug 1861
American Civil War US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet North Carolina.
29 Aug 1862
Battle of Aspromonte Italian royal forces defeat rebels
29 Aug 1862
US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
29 Aug 1864
William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
29 Aug 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 ).
29 Aug 1882
Australia beat England by 7 runs - Death of English cricket
29 Aug 1883
Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
29 Aug 1889
1st American International professional lawn tennis contest (Newport Rhode Island)
29 Aug 1895
The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel Huddersfield England.
29 Aug 1896
Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
29 Aug 1885
Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
29 Aug 1885
Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
29 Aug 1885
Boxings 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
29 Aug 1900
Gaetano Bresci the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment he will commit suicide in jail on 22 May 1901
29 Aug 1903
The Finance Minister Count Witte is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese
29 Aug 1906
US National Championship Mens Tennis Newport RI William Clothier beats defending champion Beals Wright 6-3 6-0 6-4
29 Aug 1907
The Quebec Bridge in St Lawrence Canada collapses during construction killing 75 workers.
29 Aug 1908
US Open Mens Golf Myopia Hunt GC Fred McLeod defeats fellow Scot Willie Smith by 6 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title
29 Aug 1908
NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
29 Aug 1908
US National Championship Mens Tennis Newport RI Defending champion William Larned beats Beals Wright 6-1 6-2 8-6 for his 4th of 7 US singles titles
29 Aug 1909
AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
29 Aug 1909
Worlds 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
29 Aug 1910
Japan changes Koreas name to Chsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
29 Aug 1911
Ishi considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
29 Aug 1913
Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
29 Aug 1914
Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal
29 Aug 1914
Battle of St Quentin French counter attack under General Lanrezac
29 Aug 1916
Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide 1000 die
29 Aug 1916
US Congress accepts Jones Act Philippines independence
29 Aug 1918
Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
29 Aug 1920
An American sweep of the medals in the mens 100m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics Duke Kahanamoku sets world record 100.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
29 Aug 1920
Swedish swimmer Hkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating team mate Thor Henning in the 200m also beats Henning for gold in the 400m
29 Aug 1920
Ethelda Bleibtrey wins her 3rd gold medal of the Antwerp Olympics teams with Irene Guest Frances Schroth & Margaret Woodbridge in American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team swims world record 511.6
29 Aug 1920
An American sweep of the medals in the womens 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of team mates Helen Wainwright & Thelma Payne
29 Aug 1924
Germanys Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan which sought to solve the WWI reparations problem
29 Aug 1930
The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
29 Aug 1932
International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
29 Aug 1935
2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game Chicago Bears 5 All-Stars 0 (77450)
29 Aug 1937
Philadelphia As Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
29 Aug 1939
Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
29 Aug 1940
7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game Green Bay 45 All-Stars 28 (84567)
29 Aug 1941
German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1469 Jewish children
29 Aug 1943
Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany
29 Aug 1944
15000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
29 Aug 1947
Constantine Tsaldaris succeeds Maximos as Greek premier
29 Aug 1949
USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk Kazakh SSR
29 Aug 1950
International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952
29 Aug 1952
New York premiere of history-based film The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
29 Aug 1953
KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
29 Aug 1954
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens
29 Aug 1956
French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
29 Aug 1957
Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
29 Aug 1958
US Air Force Academys permanent site opens in Colorado Springs Colorado
29 Aug 1960
Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
29 Aug 1960
Swedish canoeists Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjdelius win the K2-1000m in 334.73 at the Rome Olympics Fredrikssons 6th gold medal in 4 Olympic Games
29 Aug 1960
Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics retains title won in Melbourne 1956 will win unprecedented 3rd consecutive 100m gold in Tokyo 1964
29 Aug 1960
Italy wins cycling team pursuit and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics Italy wins all 4 track events and road team time trial to thoroughly dominate sport
29 Aug 1962
Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
29 Aug 1963
Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
29 Aug 1964
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances
29 Aug 1965
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
29 Aug 1966
The Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park San Francisco)
29 Aug 1966
Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
29 Aug 1967
Final TV episode of The Fugitive starring David Janssen watched by 78 million people
29 Aug 1967
Yanks longest day Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9 Yanks win 2nd game in 20 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
29 Aug 1968
Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US President (Chicago)
29 Aug 1969
KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City MT (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting
29 Aug 1970
Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
29 Aug 1972
SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
29 Aug 1972
Sandy Neilson wins the blue ribband womens 100m freestyle gold medal in 58.59 at the Munich Olympics beating fellow American Shirley Babashoff and Shane Gould of Australia
29 Aug 1974
USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
29 Aug 1975
Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
29 Aug 1978
USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
29 Aug 1979
Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
29 Aug 1981
Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
29 Aug 1982
38F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
29 Aug 1982
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium atomic number 109 is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft fr Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt Germany.
29 Aug 1985
NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
29 Aug 1986
Heike Drechsler of East Germany ties world womens 200 m mark (21.71s)
29 Aug 1986
Moroccan King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
29 Aug 1987
Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Womens Marathon at World Chapionships in Rome in 2hr 2517mins
29 Aug 1987
44th Venice Film Festival Au revoir les enfants directed by Louis Malle wins Golden Lion
29 Aug 1988
Macys Tap-o-Mania sets a Guinness record for tap dancing
29 Aug 1988
USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav 1 Afghan) to station Mir
29 Aug 1988
45th Venice Film Festival The Legend of the Holy Drinker directed by Ermanno Olmi wins Golden Lion
29 Aug 1990
C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Force Base Germany killing 13
29 Aug 1992
Largest wrestling crowd outside US (75000) at Wembley Stadium London
29 Aug 1992
Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time hes blown a potential win for Greg Harris
29 Aug 1992
Braves Charlie Leibrandt 1000th strikeout. He decides to keep the ball by rolling it to the dugout allowing Ricky Jordan to take second base on error.
29 Aug 1993
93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
29 Aug 1995
NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
29 Aug 1996
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen killing all 141 aboard.
29 Aug 1997
At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre Algeria.
29 Aug 1997
Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley California as an online DVD rental business
29 Aug 2001
58th Venice Film Festival Monsoon Wedding directed by Mira Nair wins Golden Lion
29 Aug 2003
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq is assassinated in a terrorist bombing along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
29 Aug 2004
Athens Olympic marathon is run on same route as 1896 Games start at site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens Stefano Baldini of Italy wins mens gold in 21055
29 Aug 2004
Future undisputed world light heavyweight boxing champion Andre Ward of the US wins the light heavyweight gold medal at the Athens Olympics beating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus on points
29 Aug 2004
Brazil takes out the mens volleyball gold medal with a 3-1 victory over Italy at the Athens Olympics
29 Aug 2004
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf Reserve Vineyards & GC Craig Stadler wins his final major event by 1 stroke from Allen Doyle and Jerry Pate
29 Aug 2007
A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.
29 Aug 2007
64th Venice Film Festival Lust Caution directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion
29 Aug 2010
Canadian Open Womens Golf St. Charles CC Michelle Wie wins by 3 from Suzann Pettersen Jiyai Shin Jee Young Lee & Kristy McPherson
29 Aug 2011
Tha Carter IV 9th studio album by Lil Wayne is released
29 Aug 2012
Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
29 Aug 2012
Operation Eagle undertaken by the Egyptian Army results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23
29 Aug 2012
Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
29 Aug 2012
69th Venice Film Festival Pieta directed by Kim Ki-duk wins Golden Lion
29 Aug 2013
41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya
29 Aug 2014
Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
29 Aug 2016
Italian coastguard says 6500 migrants rescued at sea in 40 separate incidents in 1 day off coast of Sabratha Libya
29 Aug 2017
Hurricane Harvey sets rainfall record (51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou) from a tropical cyclone in continental US according to US National Weather Service
29 Aug 2017
Monsoon rains in Mumbai cause chaos closing schools and airports
29 Aug 2018
Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin
29 Aug 2018
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond resigns from the Scottish National Party amid sexual abuse allegatuons
29 Aug 1920
Swedish swimmer Hkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating teammate Thor Henning in the 200m also beats Henning for gold in the 400m
29 Aug 1920
Ethelda Bleibtrey wins her 3rd gold medal of the Antwerp Olympics teams with Irene Guest Frances Schroth & Margaret Woodbridge in American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team world record 511.6
29 Aug 1920
An American sweep of the medals in the womens 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright & Thelma Payne
29 Aug 2018
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond resigns from the Scottish National Party amid sexual abuse allegations
29 Aug 2019
Discovery of worlds largest child sacrifice site announced by archaeologists with 227 victims from Chim culture in Huanchaco Peru
29 Aug 2019
Scientists announce there is no single gay gene with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior in study published in Science
29 Aug 1907
The Quebec Bridge over St Lawrence River collapses during construction killing 75 workers
29 Aug 1937
MLB Philadelphia As Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
29 Aug 1964
Stephen Sondheims musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances and 6 Tony Awards
29 Aug 1987
44th Venice Film Festival Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye Children) directed by Louis Malle wins Golden Lion
29 Aug 1786
Shays Rebellion an armed uprising in Springfield and Worcester Massachusetts by citizens in opposition to the governments increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their businesses
29 Aug 1966
The Beatles last public concert before a crowd of 25000 and 7000 unsold seats at Candlestick Park in San Francisco California
29 Aug 1991
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signs decree to close Semipalatinsk test site (site of 456 Soviet nuclear tests 1949-89) after protests by Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement [1]
29 Aug 1708
Haverhill Massachusetts destroyed by French & Indians
29 Aug 1742
English writer Edmond Hoyle publishes his Short Treatise on the card game whist
29 Aug 1756
Frederick II of Prussia leads an Anglo-Prussian alliance into Saxony - beginning of the Seven Years War
29 Aug 1854
Self-governing windmill patented by American inventor Daniel Halladay
29 Aug 1864
British astronomer William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
29 Aug 1882
Australia beat England by 7 runs - Death of English cricket with Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth posting 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)
29 Aug 1917
Canadian Parliament passes the Compulsory Military Act which is opposed by many French-Canadians from Qubec and farmers across the country [1]
29 Aug 1988
USSR launches Soyuz TM-6 including Valery Polyakav Vladimir Lyakhov and first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand to station Mir
29 Aug 1992
Largest wrestling crowd outside US - 75000 at Wembley Stadium London
29 Aug 2001
Goodwill Games V opens in Brisbane Australia this is the final edition of the event
29 Aug 1178
Anti-Pope Callistus III gives the title of pope to Alexander III
29 Aug 1540
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V deprives the city Gent of its definitive rights and privileges
29 Aug 1708
Raid in Haverhill Massachusetts by French Algonquin and Abenaki forces kill or capture 40 or 40 people
29 Aug 1782
British man owar HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead off of Hampshire England more than 800 crew and visitors killed [1]
29 Aug 1861
Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries Union Army and Navy in a combined operation capture Fort Hatteras off North Carolina resulting in Union domination of the strategically important North Carolina Sounds
29 Aug 1862
Battle of Aspromonte Italian royal forces defeat rebels in southern Italy taking its leader Giuseppe Garibaldi prisoner
29 Aug 1908
New York City gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
29 Aug 1909
Worlds 1st air race held in Rheims France - Glenn Curtiss of the USA wins
29 Aug 1914
Battle of St Quentin French counterattack under General Lanrezac
29 Aug 1963
Twins player Harmon Killebrew home runs off Senator Pete Burnside in DH
29 Aug 1965
Gemini V returns to Earth after 120 orbits and a record 7 days 22 hours 55 minutes and 14 seconds [1]
29 Aug 1968
Democrats nominate Hubert Humphrey for US President (Chicago)
29 Aug 1970
Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia 1 cop killed
29 Aug 2004
XXVIII Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympic Stadium Athens Greece
29 Aug 2021
Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon Louisiana on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
29 Aug 2021
Missile and drone attack on al-Anad airbase in south Yemen kills at least 30 soldiers one of the deadliest attacks in recent years [1]
29 Aug 2022
Worst violence in Iraqi capital Baghdad in years with 30 killed and 700 injured after Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr announces he is withdrawing from politics [1]
29 Aug 2023
Greek wildfire north of city of Alexandroupoli declared EUs largest ever recorded having burnt 310 sq miles (810 sq km) and killed 20 people [1]
29 Aug 2023
Parasite worm alive and wriggling found in a womans brain for the first time in Canberra Australia [1]
29 Aug 1569
Gilbert Kennedy Scottish Earl of Cassilis roasts the administrator of Crossraguel Abbey Alan Stewart over an open fire at Castle Dunure to obtain Abbey lands it works after two turns of the spit [1]
29 Aug 1612
Battle of Surat India English fleet defeats Portuguese
29 Aug 1708
Raid in Haverhill Massachusetts by French Algonquin and Abenaki forces kills or captures 40 people
29 Aug 1742
English writer Edmond Hoyle publishes his Short Treatise on the Game of Whist
29 Aug 1756
Frederick II of Prussia leads an Anglo-Prussian alliance into Saxony beginning the Seven Years War
29 Aug 1758
New Jersey Legislature forms the first Indian reservation
29 Aug 1782
British man o war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead off Hampshire England killing more than 800 crew members and visitors [1]
29 Aug 1793
Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) are freed
29 Aug 1825
Portugal recognizes the independence of its former colony Brazil
29 Aug 1842
United Kingdom and China sign the Treaty of Nanking ending the First Opium War
29 Aug 1844
First white-Indian lacrosse game in Montreal Indigenous team wins
29 Aug 1861
Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries Union Army and Navy in a combined operation capture Fort Hatteras off North Carolina resulting in Union domination of the strategically important North Carolina Sounds
29 Aug 1862
US Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operation
29 Aug 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 )
29 Aug 1889
First American international professional lawn tennis contest in Newport Rhode Island
29 Aug 1895
Northern Rugby Union is formed at the George Hotel in Huddersfield England
29 Aug 1896
Chop suey is supposedly invented in NYC by the chef of visiting Chinese diplomat Li Hongzhang
29 Aug 1900
Gaetano Bresci the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment he commits suicide in jail on May 22 1901
29 Aug 1903
The Finance Minister Count Witte is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of Japan
29 Aug 1909
Hubert Latham of France sets a world airplane altitude record of 155 meters
29 Aug 1914
Arizonian is the first vessel to arrive in San Francisco via the Panama Canal
29 Aug 1914
Battle of St. Quentin French counterattack led by General Lanrezac
29 Aug 1917
Canadian Parliament passes the Military Service Act which is opposed by many French Canadians from Qubec and farmers across the country [1]
29 Aug 1920
An American sweep of the medals in the mens 100 m freestyle at the Antwerp Olympics Duke Kahanamoku sets a world record of 100.4 in defending his 1912 gold medal
29 Aug 1920
An American sweep of the medals in the womens 3 m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics as Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright and Thelma Payne
29 Aug 1920
Swedish swimmer Hkan Malmrot completes the breaststroke double at the Antwerp Olympics beating teammate Thor Henning in the 200 m and also beats Henning for gold in the 400m
29 Aug 1925
After a night on the town Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice and Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and imposes a 5000 fine on him
29 Aug 1935
Second NFL Chicago All-Star Game Chicago Bears 5 All-Stars 0 (77450 attendees)
29 Aug 1937
MLB Philadelphia As Bob Johnson is the second player to achieve 6 RBIs in an inning (first inning)
29 Aug 1940
Seventh NFL Chicago All-Star Game Green Bay 45 All-Stars 28 (84567 attendees)
29 Aug 1941
German Einsatzkommando kills 1469 Jewish children in Russia
29 Aug 1944
15000 American troops liberate Paris and march down the Champs-lyses
29 Aug 1949
Soviet Union secretly performs its first successful nuclear weapons test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
29 Aug 1950
International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany and Japan in 1952
29 Aug 1956
French government sends troops to Cyprus during Suez Crisis
29 Aug 1960
Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins the womens 100 m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics retaining the title won in Melbourne 1956 and will win an unprecedented third consecutive 100 m gold in Tokyo 1964
29 Aug 1960
Italy wins the cycling team pursuit and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics Italy wins all four track events and the road team time trial to thoroughly dominate the sport
29 Aug 1960
Jordanian Premier Hazza al-Majali is fatally injured in a bomb attack
29 Aug 1963
Twins player Harmon Killebrew hits a home run off Senator Pete Burnside in a doubleheader
29 Aug 1965
San Francisco Giants Willie Mays sets an NL record for home runs in a month with his 17th in August
29 Aug 1966
Dutch Interior Minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
29 Aug 1966
The Beatles last public concert takes place before a crowd of 25000 with 7000 unsold seats at Candlestick Park in San Francisco California
29 Aug 1967
Final TV episode of The Fugitive starring David Janssen is watched by 78 million people
29 Aug 1967
Yankees longest day Red Sox win the first game 2-1 in 9 innings and Yankees win the second game in 20 innings 4-3 totaling 8 hours and 19 minutes
29 Aug 1969
Joe Pepitone quits NY Yankees after being fined 500 for leaving the bench
29 Aug 1970
Black Panthers confront police in Philadelphia one officer is killed
29 Aug 1972
Sandy Neilson wins the womens 100 m freestyle gold medal in 58.59 seconds at the Munich Olympics beating fellow American Shirley Babashoff and Shane Gould of Australia
29 Aug 1972
SF Giant Jim Barr retires the first 20 batters he faces added to the last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for a record 41 in a row
29 Aug 1974
USSR performs an underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
29 Aug 1975
Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming the fourth brightest in the sky
29 Aug 1978
USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing Meadows New York
29 Aug 1979
Great Britain performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
29 Aug 1979
Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation purchases Mutual Black Network
29 Aug 1981
Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals a professional baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg South Atlantic League)
29 Aug 1982
38F (3.33C) is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of August in Cleveland Ohio
29 Aug 1982
MLB Kansas City Royals infielder George Brett gets his 1500th hit
29 Aug 1985
Atlantis moves to the launch pad for the 51-J mission
29 Aug 1985
New York Yankees Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
29 Aug 1986
Heike Drechsler of East Germany ties the world womens 200 m record (21.71 seconds)
29 Aug 1987
Houston Astros MLB player Nolan Ryan surpasses the 200-strikeout barrier for a record 11th time
29 Aug 1987
Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins the Womens Marathon at the World Championships in Rome in 2 hours 25 minutes and 17 seconds
29 Aug 1988
Macys Tap-o-Mania sets a Guinness World Record for tap dancing with 4497 participants dancing to Theres No Business Like Show Business
29 Aug 1988
USSR launches Soyuz TM-6 including Valery Polyakov Vladimir Lyakhov and the first Afghan cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand to the Mir station
29 Aug 1990
C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein Air Base Germany killing 13
29 Aug 1992
Braves Charlie Leibrandt records his 1000th strikeout. He decides to keep the ball by rolling it to the dugout allowing Ricky Jordan to take second base on an error
29 Aug 1992
Irish rock band U2 plays the first of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx NYC
29 Aug 1992
Randy Myers blows his sixth save of the season the fifth time hes blown a potential win for Greg Harris
29 Aug 1993
John Harris wins the 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship
29 Aug 1996
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 operated by a Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen killing all 141 on board
29 Aug 1997
Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings in Scotts Valley California as an online DVD rental business
29 Aug 2001
Goodwill Games V opens in Brisbane Australia for the final edition of the event
29 Aug 2003
Skype Technologies releases its pioneering video-conferencing software
29 Aug 2004
28th Summer Olympic Games close at the Olympic Stadium in Athens Greece
29 Aug 2004
Athens Olympic marathon is run on the same route as the 1896 Games starting at the site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens Stefano Baldini of Italy wins mens gold in 21055
29 Aug 2004
Brazil wins the mens volleyball gold medal with a 3-1 victory over Italy at the Athens Olympics
29 Aug 2004
Future undisputed world light heavyweight boxing champion Andre Ward of the US wins the light heavyweight gold medal at the Athens Olympics defeating Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus on points
29 Aug 2004
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf at Reserve Vineyards & GC Craig Stadler wins his final major event by one stroke over Allen Doyle and Jerry Pate
29 Aug 2007
Six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead are mistakenly loaded onto a B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana
29 Aug 2010
British BBC television series Last of the Summer Wine airs its final episode ending after 31 seasons as the longest-running sitcom ever
29 Aug 2014
Riots break out in Guinea following rumors that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
29 Aug 2016
Italian coastguard says 6500 migrants are rescued at sea in 40 separate incidents in one day off the coast of Sabratha Libya
29 Aug 2017
Hurricane Harvey sets a rainfall record of 51.88 inches in Cedar Bayou from a tropical cyclone in the continental US according to the US National Weather Service
29 Aug 2017
Monsoon rains in Mumbai cause chaos closing schools and airports
29 Aug 2018
Germany returns the human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people killed during the 1904-08 genocide at a church service in Berlin
29 Aug 2019
Discovery of worlds largest child sacrifice site is announced by archaeologists with 227 victims from the Chim culture in Huanchaco Peru
29 Aug 2019
Scientists announce there is no single gay gene with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior in a study published in Science
29 Aug 2021
Missile and drone attack on al-Anad airbase in southern Yemen kills at least 30 soldiers one of the deadliest attacks in recent years [1]
29 Aug 2022
St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hits career home run 694 off major league record 450th different pitcher in a 13-4 win over the Reds in Cincinnati
29 Aug 2022
Worst violence in Iraqi capital Baghdad in years with 30 killed and 700 injured after Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr announces withdrawal from politics [1]
29 Aug 2023
Greek wildfire north of the city of Alexandroupoli is declared the EUs largest ever recorded having burned 310 sq miles (810 sq km) and killed 20 people [1]
29 Aug 2023
Parasite worm alive and wriggling found in a womans brain for the first time in Canberra Australia [1]
29 Aug 2024
Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall in Japan on the southern island of Kyushu with the country issuing its highest level 5 alert [1]