August 29th, 1950

Born on August 29th, 1950

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What happened on August 29th, 1950?

August 29th, 1950

Korean War: British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

What else happened on August 29th?

August 29th, 2016

Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, later overseeing 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.

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, 1950

73

Manfred Helmut Zöllmer

German politician

*August 29th, 1950, Bülkau

73

Frank Henenlotter

American film director

*August 29th, 1950, Long Island

73

Leena Chandavarkar

Indian actress

*August 29th, 1950, Dharwad

73

Dave Reichert

Former United States Representative from Washington

*August 29th, 1950, Detroit Lakes

73

C. Michael Smith

American clinical psychologist

*August 29th, 1950, Indianapolis

73

Doug DeCinces

American baseball player

*August 29th, 1950, Burbank

73

Norbert Rüther

German politician

*August 29th, 1950, Menden (Sauerland)

72

Jacques Haitkin

American cinematographer

*August 29th, 1950, Brooklyn †March 21st, 2023, San Francisco

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 29th?

50

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, and dancer (1958–2009)

*August 29th, 1958, Gary †June 25th, 2009, Los Angeles

54

Lucero

Mexican singer and actress

*August 29th, 1969, Mexico City

74

Darnell Hillman

American basketball player

*August 29th, 1949, Sacramento

25

Bizarrap

Argentine record producer

*August 29th, 1998, Ramos Mejía

59

Doris Ahnen

German politician (SPD)

*August 29th, 1964, Trier

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

42

Miyo Akao

Badminton player

*August 29th, 1981, Hita

80

Arthur B. McDonald

Canadian physicist

*August 29th, 1943, Sydney

81

John McCain

American politician and military officer (1936–2018)

*August 29th, 1936, Coco Solo †August 25th, 2018, Cornville

85

Elliott Gould

American actor

*August 29th, 1938, Brooklyn

77

Michael Harney

American actor

*August 29th, 1946, The Bronx

65

Lenny Henry

British comedian

*August 29th, 1958, Dudley

79

Lukas Hartmann

Swiss novelist and children's writers

*August 29th, 1944, Bern

22

Fiorella Corimberto

Argentinian Beach handball player

*August 29th, 2001, Buenos Aires

52

Carla Gugino

American actress

*August 29th, 1971, Sarasota

74

Kurt Mehlhorn

German computer scientist (born 1949)

*August 29th, 1949, Ingolstadt

71

Falk Hoffmann

East German diver

*August 29th, 1952, Chemnitz

71

Don Schlitz

American country singer-songwriter

*August 29th, 1952, Durham

82

Ole Ritter

Danish racing cyclist, born 1941

*August 29th, 1941, Slagelse Municipality

30

Liam Pane

English singer

*August 29th, 1993, Wolverhampton

Same year
Born in 1950

67

Jeff Lowe

American mountain climber

*September 13th, 1950, Ogden †August 24th, 2018, Colorado

73

Annette Badland

English actress

*August 26th, 1950, Edgbaston

73

Narendra Modi

14th Prime Minister of India

*September 17th, 1950, Vadnagar

66

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister (1950-2017)

*May 23rd, 1950, Derry †March 21st, 2017, Altnagelvin Area Hospital

74

Billy Currie

British multi-instrumentalist

*April 1st, 1950, Huddersfield

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung City †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

73

Øivind Blunck

Norwegian actor and comedian

*December 28th, 1950, Norway

73

Wayne Eagling

Canadian ballet dancer

*November 27th, 1950, Montreal

74

Peter Funke

German historian of classical antiquity

*March 18th, 1950, Rheine

74

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

70

Jóhannes Eðvaldsson

Icelandic football player (1950-2021)

*September 3rd, 1950, Reykjavík †January 24th, 2021, Glasgow

74

Ade Chandra

Badminton player

*February 4th, 1950, Jakarta

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

67

Horace Burrell

Jamaican sports executive

*February 8th, 1950, Clarendon Parish †June 6th, 2017, Kingston

73

Harriet Walter

British actress

*September 24th, 1950, London

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

73

Stevie Wonder

American musician (born 1950)

*May 13th, 1950, Saginaw

74

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

74

Rick Perry

14th United States Secretary of Energy

*March 4th, 1950, Haskell

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