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Events

• 708 (1318 years ago) Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
• 1911 (115 years ago) Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
• 1949 (77 years ago) Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
• 1965 (61 years ago) The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1997 (29 years ago) At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
• 2003 (23 years ago) Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
• 2012 (14 years ago) The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.

Births

• 1632 (394 years ago) John Locke, English physician and philosopher (died 1704)
• 1780 (246 years ago) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (died 1867)
• 1862 (164 years ago) Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
• 1915 (111 years ago) Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (died 1982)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (died 1955)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
• 1936 (90 years ago) John McCain, American captain and politician (died 2018)
• 1958 (68 years ago) Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (died 2009)

Deaths

• 1533 (493 years ago) Atahualpa, Inca emperor (born 1497)
• 1799 (227 years ago) Pius VI, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1717)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Murad V, Ottoman sultan (born 1840)
• 1975 (51 years ago) Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (born 1882)
• 1982 (44 years ago) Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (born 1915)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Lee Marvin, American actor (born 1924)
• 2016 (10 years ago) Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Ed Asner, American actor (born 1929)

All 397 events, births and deaths of August 29