Saturday, August 29, 2015

History for August 29

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Locke 1632, Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809, Ingrid Bergman 1915 


Charlie "Bird" Parker 1920, Sir Richard Attenborough 1923, John McCain 1936 - Prisoner of war in Vietnam from October 1967-1973, U.S. Senater from Arizona, U.S. Presidential nominee 


Elliott Gould 1938, Robin Leach 1941 - Television host ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"), Rebecca DeMornay 1962 - Actress 


1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws. 


1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain. 


1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey. 


1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris. 


1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients. 


1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes. 


1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days in space. 


1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport. 


1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq. 






1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food. 

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