August 29

1708 | Indian Wars: (Queen Anne’s War) A raid in Haverhill, Massachusetts, by French, Algonquin, and Abenaki forces killed or captured 40 settlers.

1758 | Indian Wars: The New Jersey Legislature forms the first Indian reservation.

1776 | War of Independence: General Washington executed a brilliant, secret tactical evacuation of the Continental Army from Brooklyn (Long Island) across the East River to Manhattan, saving his army from capture following the Battle of Long Island.

1778 | War of Independence: Continental and British forces fight to a tactical draw at the Battle of Rhode Island (Battle of Quaker Hill), notable for the distinguished performance of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment (an all-Black Continental unit).

1786 | Shays’s Rebellion started when armed insurgents led by Daniel Shays and fellow revolutionary veterans shut down the Court of Common Pleas in Northampton, Massachusetts, marking the practical onset of Shays’s Rebellion.

1809 | Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born.

1861 | Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries.

1862 | Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia.

1876 | Entrepreneur and inventor Charles F. Kettering was born.

1877 | Cleric Brigham Young died.

1898 | The Goodyear Tire Company was formed by Frank Seiberling

1899 | General Lyman Lemnitzer was born.

1909 | American aviator Glenn Curtiss won the world’s first “air race” held in France.

1916 Congress: Established the US Naval Reserve.

1920 | Musician Charlie “Bird” Parker was born.

1921 | Entrepreneur Iris Apfel was born.

1931 | Entrepreneur David Abercrombie died.

1936 | U.S. Senator, presidential nominee, and naval officer John McCain was born.

1939 | Director Joel Schumacher was born.

1945 | WWII: General MacArthur was named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan.

1958 | Entertainer Michael Jackson was born.

1962 | Cold War: U.S. U-2 flight identifies SAM launch pads in Cuba supplied with Soviet SA-2 missiles.

1967 | SCOTUS: Justice Neil Gorsuch was born.

1970 | Civil Rights: Chicano Moratorium riot in Los Angeles, California, with over 30,000 Mexican-American anti-war protesters marching against the Vietnam War, which devolved into police clashes and the death of journalist Ruben Salazar.

1987 | Actor Lee Marvin died.

1997 | Netflix was founded.

2005 | Hurricane Katrina made U.S. landfall.

2016 | Actor Gene Wilder died.