41st year - Nr 241 Saturday, 29 August 2026

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41st year - Nr 241 Saturday, 29 August 2026

29 August / Today's 29 Events:

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(-) 227 years ago Thursday 29th of August 1799 250th Pope Pius VI, originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Valence, Drôme, France.

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(+) 164 years ago Friday 29th of August 1862 Poet and writer Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck is born in Peperstraat 6, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 155 years ago Tuesday 29th of August 1871 The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Magothy, Maryland, United States.

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(-) 149 years ago He Called for Joseph Wednesday 29th of August 1877 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham Young dies of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at the age of 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Young's last words were "Joseph! Joseph! Joseph!", invoking the name of the late Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon faith.

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(-) 139 years ago Monday 29th of August 1887 Murderer William Wilton is executed by hanging in Lewes Prison, Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 122 years ago Monday 29th of August 1904 Schutzhaftlagerführer in Ravensbrück KZ Johann Schwarzhuber is born in Tutzing, Oberbayern, Germany.

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(+) 111 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1915 Actress Ingrid Bergman is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(+) 106 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1920 Musician Charlie Parker aka Bird is born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 103 years ago Wednesday 29th of August 1923 Actor Richard Samuel Attenborough is born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 98 years ago Wednesday 29th of August 1928 Murderer Gerard Toal is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 18 in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(-) 96 years ago Friday 29th of August 1930 Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 91 years ago She Slammed into a Pear Tree and Another Tree Thursday 29th of August 1935 Queen consort of the Belgians Sofia Lovisa Thyra Astrid of Sweden dies from her injuries sustained in a car crash at the age of 30 in Küssnacht, Schwyz, Switzerland. King Leopold was driving their Packard One-Twenty convertible and Queen Astrid looking at a map. As the Queen pointed out something to her husband the car went off the road down a steep slope and slammed into a pear tree. Queen Astrid had opened her door to try to get out but she was thrown out upon impact. Her body collided with the trunk of the tree while the car slammed into a second tree. King Leopold was thrown out of the car as well but he was only lightly injured.

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(+) 88 years ago Monday 29th of August 1938 Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 84 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1942 Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison known from The Velvet Underground is born in East Meadow, New York, United States.

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(-) 83 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1943 Murderess Mildred Mary Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight Correctional Center, 23813 E. 3200 North Road, Nevada Township, Dwight, Illinois, United States. Bolton was the first woman ever sentenced to the electric chair in Cook County.

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(+) 68 years ago Friday 29th of August 1958 Singer-songwriter and actor Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop is born in 2300 Jackson Street, Gary, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 67 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1959 34-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(x) 60 years ago Monday 29th of August 1966 28-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 20. Aktion in his studio in Wien, Wien, Austria. Nitsch' 20. Aktion lasted two hours.

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(x) 57 years ago He Identified Himself Friday 29th of August 1969 Gilbert Martinez is beaten and sexually assaulted by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in San Francisco, California, United States. Police arrived and arrested the assailant who identified himself as Albert Ralph Price although he carried identification with the name Hobert Prater and later proved to be Hatcher.

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(-) 57 years ago Friday 29th of August 1969 Glenda Sue Harden is stabbed to death by serial killer George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 55 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1971 Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer dies of a diabetes-related heart attack at the age of 67 in Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Leopold's corneas were donated.

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(-) 44 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1982 Actress Ingrid Bergman dies of breast cancer at the age of 67 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 44 years ago Sunday 29th of August 1982 Terri Rene Milligan is abducted and strangled by serial killer Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer in South 144th Street, Seattle, Washington, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1987 Actor Lee Marvin dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Tucson, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1987 The bodies of  48-year-old Leader of the Evangelical Baptist Church Park Soon-ja aka Benevolent Mother and her three children and 29 members of the cult are found poisoned, strangled and beaten to death in the attic of Park's Odaeyang Trading Co. tourist souvenir factory in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

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(-) 34 years ago Saturday 29th of August 1992 Psychotherapist, philosopher and semiologist Félix Pierre Guattari dies of a heart attack at the age of 62 in Clinique de La Borde, 120 Route de Tour en Sologne, Cour-Cheverny, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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(x) 30 years ago Thursday 29th of August 1996 141 die in Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 Tupolev Tu-154M crash in Operafjellet, Svalbard, Norway. The accident was the result of a series of small navigational errors causing the aircraft to be 3.7 kilometres from the approach centerline at the time of impact.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 29th of August 2014 Filmmaker Babeth Van Loo in my installation 'Hit the deck, Robin. I'll get us out of this. b/w But it was scary for a while, wasn't it?' at the opening of the exhibition 'Haperende Mens' in Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 6 years ago Saturday 29th of August 2020 Child rapist and murderer Keith Dwayne Nelson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.

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