This Week in History
(August 29th – September 4th)
August 29th
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of
the Hungarian Kingdom.
1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium
War.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents
the world's first internal
combustion motorcycle, the
Reitwagen.
August 30th
1835 – Melbourne is founded.
1914 – World War I: Germans
defeat the Russians in the Battle
of Tannenberg.
1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures
Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
1999 – East Timor votes for independence from
Indonesia in a referendum.
August 31st
1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture
Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in
order to keep it out of French hands.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the
Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia
is founded by Robert Menzies.
September 2nd
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of
Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of
Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and
Cleopatra.
1945 – World War II: Combat
ends in the Pacific Theatre: the
Instrument of Surrender of Japan
is signed aboard the battleship
USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 3rd
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the
world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is
founded by Saint Marinus.
2001 – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of
Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the
next 11 weeks, riot police
escort the schoolchildren and
their parents through hundreds
of protesters, some of whom
hurl missiles and abuse.
September 4th
1800 – The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to
British troops who had been called at the invitation of the
Maltese.
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the
Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make
decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
1998 – Google is founded by
Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
two students at Stanford
University.
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September 1
Birthdays
1449 – Tumu Crisis – Mongolians capture the Emperor
Aug 29, 1862 – Andrew Fisher, Australian politician, 5th
of China.
Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
Aug 30, 1893 – Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the
Aug 31, 1894 – Albert Facey, Australian soldier and
throne as king of the Zulu nation
author (d. 1982)
following the death of his father
Sep 1, 1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author
Mpande.
(d. 1950)
Sep 2, 1964 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic Sep 3, 1965 – Charlie Sheen, American actor
euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
Sep 4,1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand
sign a mutual defence pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.