This Day in History
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
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Pizarro Executes Last Inca Emperor
Atahuallpa the 13th and last emperor of the Incas dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarros Spanish conquistadors. The execution of Ata...
Soviets explode atomic bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb code name First Lightning. In order t...
Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on August 29 2005. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of ...
Marathoner assaulted at Olympics
On August 29 2004 Brazilian distance runner Vanderlei de Lima is attacked by a spectator while running the marathon the final event of the Summer Olympics in...
Ishi discovered in California
Ishi who was described as the last surviving member of the Native Amercain Yahi tribe is discovered in California on August 29 1911.By the first decade ...
Actress Ingrid Bergman dies on her birthday
On August 29 1982 the Swedish-born actress and three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman dies of cancer in London on her 67th birthday. Bergman who was ...
Hurricane Katrina wreaks havoc on Gulf Coast
On this day in 2005 Hurricane Katrina the most destructive hurricane ever to hit the United States makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast near New Orleans L...
Hurricane Donna is born
On August 29 1960 the storm that would become Hurricane Donna forms near Cape Verde off the African coast. It would go on to cause 150 deaths from Puerto Rico...
Hero security guard wrongly accused as bombing suspect dies
Richard Jewell the hero security guard turned Olympic bombing suspect dies at age 44 of natural causes at his Georgia home.On July 27 1996 during the Summer...
North and South clash at the Second Battle of Bull Run
Confederate General Robert E. Lee deals a stinging defeat to Union General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run Virginiaa battle that arose out o...
Charles F Kettering inventor of electric self starter is born
Charles Franklin Kettering the American engineer and longtime director of research for General Motors Corp. (GM) is born on August 29 1876 in Loudonville O...
Women join British war effort
On August 29 1914 with World War I approaching the end of its first month the Womens Defense Relief Corps is formed in Britain.Though womens ...
How 200 Conquistadors Conquered an Empire of 10 Million
August 29 1533 The Inca people named their empire Land of the Four Quarters or Tahuantinsuyu and in 1533 it was the largest in the world. It c...
Fighting The Scourge of Child Labour
August 29 1833 The United Kingdoms historic first Factory Act became law on this day and it was much needed.Women and children faced a gruelling w...
1533 Last ruler of the Inca
Atahualpa the last ruler of the Incas was murdered as Francisco Pizarro completed his conquest of Peru....
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