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Today in History
August 29

70   The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege.
1526   Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushes a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs.
1533   In Peru, the Inca chief Atahualpa is executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although the chief had already paid his ransom.
1776   General George Washington retreats during the night from Long Island to New York City.
1793   Slavery is abolished in Santo Domingo.
1862   Union General John Pope’s army is defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1882   Australia defeats England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary appears in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team.
1942   The American Red Cross announces that Japan has refused to allow safe conduct for the passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war.
1945   U.S. airborne troops are landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo, beginning the occupation of Japan.
1952   In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bomb Pyongyang, North Korea.
1992   Thousands of Germans demonstrate against a wave of racist attacks aimed at immigrants.

Born on August 29
1632   John Locke, philosopher of liberalism whose ideas influenced the American founding fathers, famous for his treatise An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1809   Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, essayist and father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1898   Preston Sturges, screenwiter, film director and playwright.
1915   Ingrid Bergman, Oscar winning actress famous whose films include Casablanca and Anastasia.
1920   Charlie "Bird" Parker, self-taught jazz saxophonist, pioneer of the new "cool" movement.
1924   Dinah Washington, singer known in the 50s as "Queen of the Harlem Blues."
1927   Marion Williams, gospel singer.
1958   Michael Jackson, pop singer, entertainer.

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