August 29 Events in History

2010	Sumatra's Sinabung volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years, killing one and causing Indonesia to evacuate thousands of people
2010	In Hong Kong, 80,000 people rally in response to last week's fatal tourist coast hijacking hostage crisis in the Philippines
2005	Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836
1993	21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton
1993	93rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
1993	Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
1993	Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28)
1992	Largest wrestling crowd out side of U.S. (75,000) at  Wembley Stadium
1992	Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season and it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
1992	Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout and decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
1991	John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney
1991	U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities
1990	C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990	Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1988	Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988	U.S.S.R. launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1987	Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
1987	Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome  marathon (2:25:17)
1986	Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1986	Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
1985	Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
1985	Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1985	New York Yankee Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
1982	38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1982	George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
1982	Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982	Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1
1981	28th Walker Cup: U.S. wins 15-9
1981	Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
1979	Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979	Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1978	U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978	USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing, New York
1977	St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1976	Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975	Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1974	U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1972	San Francisco Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1970	Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
1969	Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1969	KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, Montana (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1968	1st U.S. Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr. Vija Vuskains)
1968	Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
1968	Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja
1967	Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
1967	Yankees longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yankees win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes
1966	Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
1965	Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1965	Willie Mays sets NL record for home runs in a month  with his 17th of August
1964	"Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 965 performances
1964	Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1964	On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
1963	Harmon Killebrew (Twins) home runs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
1962	Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962	U.S. U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1960	Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1958	Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1958	George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
1957	Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957	Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights
1956	French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1954	San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens
1953	KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953	U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1950	International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52
1949	U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1947	Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1945	British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945	General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1944	15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944	Anti German rebellion in Slovakia
1943	Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1941	German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1940	7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1939	Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1937	Philadelphia A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs i n an inning (1st)
1935	2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
1932	International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932	United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1929	German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1925	After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late f or batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth and slaps a $5,000 fine on him
1924	German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
1916	Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve
1916	General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916	Transportship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
1916	U.S. Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence
1916	Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1914	4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
1914	Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal
1914	Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac
1913	Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
1909	AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909	World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1908	N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London
1906	Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
1906	William J. Clothier wins the U.S. Tennis Open
1905	Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
1904	3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis
1896	Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1889	1st American International pro lawn tennis  contest (Newport RI)
1885	Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885	Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
1885	Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between  John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey
1883	Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion
1882	Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"
1882	Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs.  England (7-46 and 7-44)
1864	William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1862	2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
1862	Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1862	Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
1862	U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins operation
1854	Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1844	1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1842	Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1831	Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
1793	Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
1792	English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1786	Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
1776	Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1758	New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
1756	England and France meet in war
1756	Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
1742	Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
1708	English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia
1708	Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians
1664	Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1655	Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw
1640	English King Charles I signed a peace treaty  with Scotland
1612	Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
1540	Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive  rights/privileges
1533	Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1526	Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohacs
1484	Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
1475	Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts
1261	Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
1178	Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
284	General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
284	Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)