On This Day August 29th

 OTD

August 29th is the two hundredth-forty-first day of the year, and there are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Event

 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

1588 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ordinance, disarming the peasantry to separate the samurai and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralize his power.

1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.

1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, began in response to high debt and tax burdens.

1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.

1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

1898 – The Goodyear Tire Company was founded in Akron, Ohio.

1912 – A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.

1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first nuclear bomb, First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

1997 – Netflix was launched as an internet DVD rental service.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.

 

Birthdays

 1534 – Nicholas Pieck, Dutch Franciscan friar and martyr (d. 1572)

1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1683)

1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)

1772 – James Finlayson, Scottish Quaker (d. 1852)

1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author (d. 1894)

1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)

1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)

1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)

1923 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)

1952 – Don Schlitz, American Hall of Fame country music songwriter ( The Gambler & Forever and Ever Amen)

1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (d. 2009)

1982 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)

 

 

Holiday Spotlight

 Individual Rights Day

John Locke, an influential English philosopher known as the "Father of Liberalism," emphasized individual liberty and rights. He believed that individuals should retain their human and civil rights inviolably, including complete liberty in how they live, freedom of speech, and the freedom to oppose the government.

 

Dr. Tom Stevens, founder of the Objectivist Party, strongly supports Locke's philosophies, particularly concerning the importance of the individual in society. Dr. Stevens is credited with establishing the annual celebration in honor of Locke's ideas.

 

Holidays And Observance.

According to Hoyle Day

Chop Suey Day

Individual Rights Day

International Day Against Nuclear Tests

Lemon Juice Day

Marine Corps Reserve Birthday

More Herbs, Less Salt Day

National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day

National Swiss Winegrowers Day

National Whiskey Sour Day  

Potteries Bottle Oven Day

Record Store Day  

Thoughtful Thursday  

 

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