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Events on August 29

• 1756 The Seven Years' War begins in Europe with the Prussian army marching into Saxony without a prior declaration of war.
• 1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives a patent for his riding car, the prototype for the motorcycle. He developed the vehicle with lateral support wheels together with Wilhelm Maybach.
• 1893 The American tinkerer Whitcomb Judson is granted a patent for the zipper he invented.
• 1897 The first Zionist World Congress begins in Basel under the chairmanship of Theodor Herzl.
• 1944 During the Royal Air Force's second major bombing raid on Königsberg, the historic old town is largely destroyed by a firestorm.
• 1951 The first Mickey Mouse comic book appears in Germany.
• 1952 The feature film Casablanca premieres in Germany in a heavily edited version.
• 1966 The Beatles give their final joint public concert at Candlestick Park Stadium in San Francisco (not counting the last legendary concert on the roof of the Apple Studios on January 30, 1969).
• 1997 The U.S. film industry company Netflix is founded.
• 2004 The German racing driver Michael Schumacher wins his seventh World Championship, thereby setting a new record in the history of Formula 1.
• 2005 Hurricane Katrina hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, a storm surge floods New Orleans, and large parts of the U.S. states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are placed under water. More than 1000 people die, and the financial damage is estimated at over 125 billion euros.
• 2022 Ukrainian armed forces begin a counteroffensive in the course of which the city of Kherson can be liberated from Russian occupation by November 11, 2022.

Born on August 29

• 1862 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer
• 1871 Albert Lebrun, French politician and statesman, last President of the Third Republic
• 1920 Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist
• 1921 Erni Singerl, German folk actress
• 1961 Philipp Moog, German actor
• 1962 Jutta Kleinschmidt, German rally driver
• 1971 Oliver Berben, German director and film producer
• 1971 Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1972 Daniele Ganser, Swiss historian and publicist
• 1980 Faiz Mangat, German pop singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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