Today, August 29, is the Feast Day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist. Today is International Day against Nuclear Tests (international). On this date in: 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708); 1533 – Spaniard Francisco Pizarro executes Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empire; 1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey; 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction; 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the worlds first mountain-climbing rack railway; 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the worlds first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen; 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan; 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco; and 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. Born on this date: 1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self (d. 1704); 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-English actress and singer (d. 1982); 1924 – Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (d. 1963); 1936 – John McCain, American captain and politician; 1946 – Bob Beamon, American long jumper; 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (d. 2009); and 1959 – Rebecca De Mornay, American actress and singer. Died on this date: 1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762); 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-English actress and singer (b. 1915); 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor and singer (b. 1924); and 2007 – Richard Jewell, American police officer became known in connection with the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States(b. 1962).
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