August 29th, 1947

Born on August 29th, 1947

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What happened on August 29th?

August 29th, 1914

Due to price increases on macaroni products, rioting occurred in the Little Italy area of Providence, Rhode Island.

August 29th, 2016

Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.

August 29th, 2007

Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

August 29th, 1996

Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.

August 29th, 1991

Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.

August 29th, 1984

Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.

August 29th, 1960

Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.

August 29th, 1959

Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.

August 29th, 1930

The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.

August 29th, 1916

Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.

August 29th, 1911

The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.

August 29th, 1903

Slava, the last of five Borodino-class battleships, was launched by the Imperial Russian Navy.

August 29th, 1885

Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).

August 29th, 1842

Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.

August 29th, 1831

Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 29th

Born on August 29th, 1947

78

Temple Grandin

American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

*August 29th, 1947, Boston

78

Arthur Burghardt

American actor

*August 29th, 1947, New York

Same year
Born in 1947

78

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

78

Hillary Clinton

American politician, diplomat, and presidential candidate (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

79

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

78

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

78

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

78

Geoffrey Hinton

British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist

*December 6th, 1947, Wimbledon

79

Peter Nogly

German association football player and manager

*January 14th, 1947, Lübeck

78

Dieter Riedel

East German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1947, Gröditz

78

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

78

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

78

Dilma Rousseff

36th President of Brazil, 3rd President of the BRICS Bank

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

78

Ulrich Daldrup

German Politician, Scientist and former Mayor of Aachen

*September 27th, 1947, Porta Westfalica

79

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Harper University Hospital

78

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

79

Elton John

British singer, songwriter and musician

*March 25th, 1947, Pinner

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Betondorp †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

79

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

79

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, East Los Angeles

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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