today.nukz.net: Almanac August 29

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish born American actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant.

Before becoming a star in American films, she had already been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her first introduction to American audiences came with her starring role in the English remake of Intermezzo in 1939. In America, she brought to the screen a "Nordic freshness and vitality", along with exceptional beauty and intelligence, and according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, she quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and one of Hollywood's greatest leading actresses.

Events

708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.
1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
1758 – The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1825 – Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1833 – The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1903 – The Russian battleship Slava, the last of the five Borodino class battleships, is launched.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed 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.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $80 billion in damage.
2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

Births

1434 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs (d. 1472)
1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet, satirist, and author of comic opera librettos (d. 1803)
1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 – Jan Sniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1777 – Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1805 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (d. 1884)
1811 – Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
1842 – Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (d. 1907)
1843 – David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist (d. 1962)
1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
1876 – Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1881 – Albert Henderson, Canadian football player (d. 1947)
1898 – Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)
1901 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1905 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (d. 1941)
1905 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1910 – Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1912 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
1912 – Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1915 – Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
1916 – George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
1920 – Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)
1922 – Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (d. 2008)
1923 – Richard Attenborough, English film director
1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1923 – Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1924 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek Byzantinologist
1926 – Betty Lynn, American actress
1926 – María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1928 – Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)
1928 – Herbert Meier, Swiss writer
1929 – Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)
1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1931 – Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1932 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (d. 1996)
1933 – Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1934 – John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
1935 – William Friedkin, American film director
1935 – László Garai, Hungarian scientist, psychologist
1936 – John McCain, American politician
1937 – James Florio, American politician
1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer
1938 – Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury 1995–1999
1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian athlete
1939 – Joel Schumacher, American film director
1940 – James Brady, American White House Press Secretary and gun control activist
1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1941 – Robin Leach, English television host
1942 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 – John Heuser, Electron microscopist
1943 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996)
1943 – Dick Halligan, American musician & composer
1945 – Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
1945 – Chris Copping, English musician & singer-songwriter
1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper
1946 – Dimitris Christofias, Cypriot politician and sixth President of the Republic of Cyprus
1947 – Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
1947 – James Hunt, English racing driver (d. 1993)
1949 – Werner Kaiser, German footballer
1950 – Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
1950 – Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
1950 – Frank Henenlotter, American director
1952 – Karen Hesse, American children's writer
1952 – Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
1953 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist
1955 – Diamanda Galas, American singer
1955 – Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1955 – Jacob Lew, American government official
1956 – GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
1956 – Mark Morris, American choreographer
1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
1957 – Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1958 – Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor
1958 – Michael Jackson, American pop singer (d. 2009)
1959 – Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
1959 – Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family
1959 – Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician
1959 – Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter
1960 – Todd English, American chef
1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist
1961 – Carsten Fischer, German field-hockey player
1961 – Rodney McCray, American basketball player
1962 – Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1962 – Carl Banks, American football player
1962 – Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor
1963 – Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1964 – Zisis Tsekos, Greek footballer
1965 – Will Perdue, American basketball player
1965 – Dina Spybey, American actress
1966 – Jörn Großkopf, German footballer
1967 – Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1967 – Jirí Ružek, Czech photographer
1968 – Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1969 – Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1969 – Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
1971 – Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1971 – Carla Gugino, American actress
1971 – Alex Griffin, bassist (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
1972 – Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1973 – Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1973 – Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1974 – Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 – Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
1975 – Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
1975 – Kyle Cook, guitarist (Matchbox 20)
1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
1976 – Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
1976 – Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1977 – John Patrick O'Brien, American footballer
1977 – Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 – Devean George, American basketball player
1977 – John Hensley, American actor
1977 – Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1977 – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 – Jo Weil, German actor
1978 – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 – Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1979 – Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
1980 – David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 – Chris Simms, American football player
1980 – David West, American basketball player
1980 – Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 – Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1981 – Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
1981 – Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1981 – Dennis Oh, Korean-American actor
1982 – Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
1984 – Alexander Hug, German rugby player
1985 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1985 – Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
1986 – Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 – Nicole Anderson, American actress
1990 – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
1990 – Julia Vlassov, American figure skater
1991 – Anikó Kovacsics, Hungarian handball player
1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1993 – Lucas Cruikshank, American Internet personality

Deaths

886 – Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 – King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
1395 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1526 – King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in the Battle of Mohács) (b. 1506)
1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (killed in the Battle of Mohács) (b. 1475)
1533 – Atahualpa, Inca emperor (b. 1497)
1542 – Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. c. 1516)
1543 – Maria of Jülich-Berg, Mother of Anne of Cleves (b. 1491)
1657 – John Lilburne, English dissenter (b. 1614)
1712 – Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)
1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian polymath (b. 1684)
1769 – Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)
1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1846)
1877 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)
1889 – Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 – Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843)
1892 – William Forbes Skene, pioneer Scottish historian and Celtist (b. 1809)
1904 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
1930 – William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 – David T. Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1867)
1935 – Queen Astrid of the Belgians (b. 1905)
1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1946 – Adolphus Busch III, American brewing magnate and President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Company (b. 1891)
1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1951 – Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)
1975 – Éamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1976 – Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
1977 – Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
1981 – Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)
1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
1982 – Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1983 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
1984 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (b. 1890)
1984 – Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1985 – Evelyn Ankers, English actress (b. 1918)
1987 – Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
1989 – Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer and mystic (b. 1901)
1991 – Libero Grassi, Italian businessman killed by the Mafia (b. 1924)
1992 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (b. 1930)
1992 – Teddy Turner, English comedian (b. 1917)
1995 – Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
2000 – Shelagh Fraser, British actress (b. 1922)
2000 – Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
2001 – Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (b. 1952)
2001 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
2003 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2003 – Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
2004 – Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 – Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2008 – Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
2008 – Michael Schoenberg, American geophysicist (b. 1939)