On This Day:
Thursday August 29, 2013 This is the 241st day of the year, with 124 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: coast type A coast is the boundary between land and sea and can be a sandy beach, rocky cliff, or anything in between. Coasts are always shifting as the water relentlessly assaults the land. Distinctive landforms are created by the erosive action of the sea, wind, and rain, which contribute to changes in coastlines. A coast is high or low and made of soft or hard rock, depending on whether it has been formed largely by erosion or by deposition. Canada's coastline is the world's longest at 243,792 km or 151,485 miles (including the coastline of the country's 52,455 islands).
Holidays Feast Day of St. Sabina of Rome, St. Edwold of Cerne, and St. Medericus or Merry.
Slovakia: National Day.
Events 1533 - Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, died by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors. His death marked the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
1831 - Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer.
1835 - The city of Melbourne, Australia, was founded.
1839 - Fifty-three Africans were seized near modern-day Sierra Leone, taken to Cuba and sold as slaves. On this day, the slaves, led by Cinque, seized control of the ship, asking to be taken back to Africa. The crew secretly changed course and took them back to Long Island, where they stood trial.
1896 - The Chinese-American dish chop suey was invented in New York City by the chef to visiting Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang.
1966 - At Candlestick Park, San Francisco, the Beatles played their last live concert.
1991 - The Supreme Soviet voted to suspend formally all activities of the Communist Party.
1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the 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 $115 billion in damage.
Births 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher.
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, author, poet.
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress.
1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, American jazz saxophonist.
1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director.
1938 - Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein), American actor.
1941 - Robin Leach, English television host.
1958 - Michael Jackson, American pop singer.
Deaths 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.
1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and second president of the Mormon church.
1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle.
1931 - David T. Abercrombie, founder of Abercrombie and Fitch.
1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress.
1987 - Lee Marvin, American tough guy actor.
1990 - Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian writer.
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