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August 29th not only belongs to the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, as his birthday. But here is a list of other interesting events that occurred on his birthday:
DATE: August 29th.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
YEAR: 284 -Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
Year: 284- Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
Year: 708- Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time
Year: 1178- Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
Year: 1261- Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
Year: 1475- Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts
Year: 1484- Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
Year: 1526- Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohacs
Year: 1540- Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
Year: 1612- Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
Year: 1640- English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
Year: 1655- Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw
Year: 1708- English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia
Year: 1756- Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
Year: 1756- England and France meet in war
Year: 1758- New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation ***Finally, something about the United States! Ha Ha!***
Year: 1776- Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
Year: 1786- Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
Year: 1793- Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
Year: 1833- The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
Year: 1842- Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
Year: 1854- Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
Year: 1862- Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
Year: 1862- 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
Year: 1864- William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
Year: 1883- Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion
Year: 1885- Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
Year: 1896- Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
Year: 1898- The Goodyear tire company is founded.
Year: 1904- 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis
Year: 1906- Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
Year: 1908- N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London
Year: 1909- World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
Year: 1913- Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
Year: 1914- Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal
Year: 1916- Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
Year: 1916- Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve
Year: 1924- German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
Year: 1932- International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
Year: 1939- Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
Year: 1941- German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
Year: 1949- U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb
Year: 1953- U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
Year: 1957- United States Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
Year: 1958- George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
Year: 1958- Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
Year: 1958- MICHAEL JACKSON IS BORN!!!!!!!!!!
Year: 1964- Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
Year: 1966- Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
Year: 1969- KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Year: 1970- Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
Year: 1978- U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
Year: 1979- Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Year: 1982- 38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in August ***OK, um, let me just ad one comment here: I live two hours south of Cleveland (not even), and it is freezing a$$ cold there!!! I had to laugh out loud when I saw it was only 38 degrees back then... 'cause now its at least 20 below zero!!! Haha. Ah, how the times change! ***
Year: 1991- John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney
Year: 2005- Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836
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I also found this: Here is a list of others that share the same birthday as Michael! Hope you all find this somewhat interesting as I did... Otherwise this entire post is useless.
BORN: 1619- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance
BORN: 1811- Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
BORN: 1936- John McCain, American politician
AND- here are some deaths that occurred today in history... sad, but interesting, still.
Year: A.D. 29- John the Baptist is Beheaded.
Year: 1968- Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner
Year: 1799- Pope Pius VI
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That's all I have. Hope this was slightly interesting...
DATE: August 29th.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
YEAR: 284 -Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
Year: 284- Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
Year: 708- Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time
Year: 1178- Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
Year: 1261- Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
Year: 1475- Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts
Year: 1484- Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
Year: 1526- Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohacs
Year: 1540- Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
Year: 1612- Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
Year: 1640- English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
Year: 1655- Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw
Year: 1708- English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia
Year: 1756- Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
Year: 1756- England and France meet in war
Year: 1758- New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation ***Finally, something about the United States! Ha Ha!***
Year: 1776- Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
Year: 1786- Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
Year: 1793- Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
Year: 1833- The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
Year: 1842- Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
Year: 1854- Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
Year: 1862- Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
Year: 1862- 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
Year: 1864- William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
Year: 1883- Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion
Year: 1885- Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
Year: 1896- Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
Year: 1898- The Goodyear tire company is founded.
Year: 1904- 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis
Year: 1906- Bridge in St. Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
Year: 1908- N.Y. gives a ticker tape parade to returning U.S. Olympians from London
Year: 1909- World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
Year: 1913- Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
Year: 1914- Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in San Francisco via Panama Canal
Year: 1916- Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
Year: 1916- Congress creates U.S. Naval reserve
Year: 1924- German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
Year: 1932- International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
Year: 1939- Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
Year: 1941- German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
Year: 1949- U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb
Year: 1953- U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
Year: 1957- United States Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
Year: 1958- George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
Year: 1958- Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
Year: 1958- MICHAEL JACKSON IS BORN!!!!!!!!!!
Year: 1964- Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
Year: 1966- Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
Year: 1969- KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Year: 1970- Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
Year: 1978- U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
Year: 1979- Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Year: 1982- 38 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio in August ***OK, um, let me just ad one comment here: I live two hours south of Cleveland (not even), and it is freezing a$$ cold there!!! I had to laugh out loud when I saw it was only 38 degrees back then... 'cause now its at least 20 below zero!!! Haha. Ah, how the times change! ***
Year: 1991- John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney
Year: 2005- Hurricane Katrina causes sever damage to the Gulf Coast killing 1836
*******************************************************
I also found this: Here is a list of others that share the same birthday as Michael! Hope you all find this somewhat interesting as I did... Otherwise this entire post is useless.
BORN: 1619- Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance
BORN: 1811- Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
BORN: 1936- John McCain, American politician
AND- here are some deaths that occurred today in history... sad, but interesting, still.
Year: A.D. 29- John the Baptist is Beheaded.
Year: 1968- Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner
Year: 1799- Pope Pius VI
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That's all I have. Hope this was slightly interesting...