Today in History: USA, USSR and Egypt Pavilions Destroyed in İzmir Fair

August 29 is the 241th day of the year (242th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. Number of days left until the end of the year 124

Railways

• 29 August 1926 Samsun-Çarşamba line (narrow line 36 km.) Is completed. Samsun Coast Railways Turkish Joint Stock Company started operation.

Events 

• 1521 – Conquest of Belgrade: Belgrade is conquered by the Ottoman Army.
• 1526 – Suleiman the Magnificent defeated the Hungarian Army in Mohac.
• 1541 - The Ottoman Army captured Budin, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary.
• 1756 - King of Prussia II. Frederick attacked Saxony; The Seven Years' War has begun.
• 1825 - Portugal recognizes the independence of Brazil.
• 1831 - Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
• 1842 - Between England and China "I. The Treaty of Nanking was signed, ending the Opium War.
• 1855 – The first telegraph communication was made in the Ottoman Empire. With the completion of the Istanbul-Edirne, Istanbul-Sumnu line, the first telegram was sent from Shumen to Istanbul. In the telegram giving information about the Crimean War, “Allied troops entered Sevastopol.” was written. Turkish troops were also among the allies.
• 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motorcycle.
• 1898 - Founding of the Goodyear company.
• 1907 - Québec bridge collapses during its construction: 75 workers die.
• 1915 – The Second Battle of Anafartalar is won.
• 1918 - Poland declared its independence.
• 1924 - Germany approves the Dawes Plan prepared by the Allies. According to this plan, Germany will pay war reparations.
• 1929 - Graf Zeppelin's airship returns to Lakehurst, completing a 21-day circumnavigation of the world.
• 1933 - Jews begin to be sent to concentration camps in Germany.
• 1938 – The Military Court sentenced Nâzım Hikmet to 28 years and 4 months in prison for inciting the army.
• 1947 - American scientists succeed in splitting plutonium for nuclear power.
• 1949 - The USSR tests the first atomic bomb in Kazakhstan.
• 1955 – Cyprus Conference convened in London.
• 1964 – In Izmir Fair; USA, USSR and Egyptian pavilions were destroyed; 80 people were detained.
• 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian writer and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is executed.
• 1988 – Thousands of Kurds fleeing the attack of the Iraqi Army clustered on the Turkish border.
• 1994 – Directed by Yavuz Özkan “An Autumn Story” received the “Best Actress”, “Best Actor” and “Best Screenplay” awards at the Alexandria 10th International Film Festival.
• 1996 - Turkey made a second military agreement with Israel.
• 1996 – A Tupolev Tu-154 passenger plane belonging to Vnukovo Airlines crashes on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen: 141 people are killed.
• 2003 – One of the Iraqi Shiite leaders, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, was assassinated outside a mosque in Najaf as a result of a bombing.
• 2005 - Hurricane Katrina killed 1836 people and caused $115 billion in damage from Louisiana to Florida.

Births 

• 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
• 1756 – Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal born in the Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1845)
• 1777 – Nikita Bichurin, monk, Hyacinth, Chuvash-born historian and prominent sinologist (d. 1853)
• 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
• 1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, American author (d. 1894)
• 1831 – Juan Santamaría, national hero of the Republic of Costa Rica (d. 1856)
• 1844 – Edward Carpenter, Socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and homosexual activist (d. 1929)
• 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian author (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Albert Lebrun, 14th and last president of the Third Republic in France (1932-1940) (d. 1950)
• 1898 – Preston Sturges, American film director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 1959)
• 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German surgeon (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Vivien Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed procedures to treat Blue Baby Syndrome in the 1940s (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
• 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor, furniture maker, producer, writer, director (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American stage, film, and television actress and comedian (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Sono Osato, American dancer and actress (d. 2018)
• 1920 – Charlie Parker, American jazz singer (d. 1955)
• 1922 – Arthur Anderson, American radio, film, television, theater actor and voice actor (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Dinah Washington, American blues and jazz singer (d. 1963)
• 1924 – Paul Henze, American strategist, doctor of history and geopolitics (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek professor and Byzantologist
• 1931 Stelio Kazancidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
• 1935 – William Friedkin, American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 – John McCain, American soldier and politician (d. 2018)
• 1938 - Elliott Gould is an American actress.
• 1941 – Robin Leach, English television presenter and columnist (d. 2018)
• 1942 – Gottfried John, German actor and comedian (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist
• 1946 – Bob Beamon, American former athlete
• 1946 – Demetris Christofias, sixth president of the Republic of Cyprus (d. 2019)
• 1947 – Temple Grandin, American zoologist, author, autism activist
• 1947 – James Hunt, British F1 driver (d. 1993)
• 1948 – Robert S. Langer, American chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor
• 1955 – Diamanda Galás, American Avant-garde composer, singer, pianist, performer, and painter
• 1956 – Viv Anderson, English football player
• 1958 – Michael Jackson, American musician (d. 2009)
• 1959 – Ramón Díaz, Argentinean former football player and manager
• 1959 - Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space
• 1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959 – Stephen Wolfram, English computer scientist, entrepreneur, and physicist
• 1962 – Ian James Corlett is a Canadian voice actor, producer, and writer.
• 1963 – Mehveş Emeç, Turkish pianist and pedagogue
• 1967 - Neil Gorsuch, judge of the United States Supreme Court
• 1967 – Jiří Růžek, Czech photographer
• 1968 – Me'shell Ndegeocello, American songwriter, rapper, bassist and vocalist
• 1969 – Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
• 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1973 - Vincent Cavanagh is an English singer and guitarist.
• 1973 – Thomas Tuchel, German football player and manager
• 1974 – Muhammet Ali Kurtuluş, Belgian football player
• 1976 – Stephen Carr, Irish national football player
• 1976 – Pablo Mastroeni is an American football player and manager.
• 1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish coach, former football player
• 1977 – John O'Brien, American football player
• 1977 – John Hensley, American actor
• 1978 – Volkan Arslan, Turkish football player
• 1978 – Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian national football player
• 1980 – William Levy, Cuban-American actor and model
• 1980 – David West, American professional basketball player
• 1981 – Emily Hampshire, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Jay Ryan, New Zealand actor
• 1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentina national basketball player
• 1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian goalkeeper
• 1983 – Saadet Aksoy, Turkish actress
• 1986 – Hajime Isayama is a Japanese manga artist
• 1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
• 1990 – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch national football player
• 1990 – Nicole Gale Anderson, American actress
• 1990 – Jakub Kosecki, Polish national football player
• 1991 – Néstor Araujo, Mexican national football player
• 1991 - Deshaun Thomas is an American professional basketball player.
• 1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
• 1993 – Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Yutaka Soneda, Japanese football player
• 1994 - Ryota Katayose, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
• 1995 – Kartal Özmizrak, Turkish basketball player
• 1995 – Oğuz Berkay Fidan, Turkish singer
• 2001 – Efsa İkra Tosun, Miss Turkey 2021
• 2003 – Ömer Faruk Beyaz, Turkish football player

Deaths 

• 886 – Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)
• 1046 – Gellért, Catholic clergyman, bishop of Szeged in the Kingdom of Hungary from 1030 until his death (b. 977~1000)
• 1123 – Øystein I, King of Norway (b. 1088)
• 1135 – Mustarchid ruled as Abbasid caliph in Baghdad during 1118-1135 (b. 1092)
• 1159 – Bertha of Sulzbach, Count of Sulzbach II. She was the daughter of Berengar (c. 1080 – December 3, 1125) and his second wife, Adelheid of Wolfratshausen. First wife of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I (b. 1110)
• 1395 – III. Albert, a member of the House of Habsburg, duke of Austria from 1365 until his death (b.
• 1523 – Ulrich von Hutten, supporter of the Martin Luther Reforms, German humanist thinker and poet (b. 1488)
• 1526 – II. Lajos, King of Hungary and Bohemia (died in battle) (b. 1506)
• 1526 – Pál Tomori, Catholic monk and archbishop of Kalocsa, Hungary (b. 1475)
• 1533 – Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru (b. ca. 1500)
• 1542 – Cristóvão da Gama, Portuguese sailor and soldier who led the Portuguese army on crusades to Ethiopia and Somalia (b. 1516)
• 1657 – John Lilburne, English politician (b. 1614)
• 1799 – VI. Pius, Pope (b. 1717)
• 1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi, 1858th shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate (b. 1866) who served from 14 to 1846
• 1873 – Hermann Hankel, German mathematician (b. 1839)
• 1877 – Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, first governor of the state of Utah, and founder of the state capital, Salt Lake City (b. 2)
• 1904 – Murat V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1840)
• 1939 – Béla Kun, Hungarian communist politician (b. 1886)
• 1960 – David Diop, Senegalese poet (b. 1927)
• 1966 – Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian writer and intellectual (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Lale Andersen, German singer and actress (b. 1905)
• 1975 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and Irish independence leader (b. 1882)
• 1977 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1982 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Fatoş Balkır, Turkish singer, theater-film actor and voice actor (b. 1940)
• 1987 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1987 – Naci al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. 1937)
• 1992 – Félix Guattari, French political activist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)
• 1996 – Aliye Rona, Turkish cinema and theater actress (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Francisco Rabal (Paco Rabal), Spanish actor (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Hasan Yalçın, one of the leaders of the Turkish 68 Youth Movement, journalist and Deputy Chairman of the IP (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Muhammed Bakir Al-Hakim, Iraqi Imitation Authority (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Pierre Messmer, French politician, former prime minister (1972-1974) (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Yurtsan Atakan, Turkish journalist and informatics writer (b. 1963)
• 2014 – Tuncay Gürel, Turkish actor (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Kyle Jean-Baptiste is a young American stage actor (b. 1993)
• 2016 – Ann Smyrner was a Danish actress (b. 1934)
• 2016 – Vedat Türkali, Turkish; poet, writer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2016 – Gene Wilder, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and writer (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Dmitri Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1978)
• 2018 – Gary Friedrich, American illustrator and author (b. 1943)
• 2018 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Jim Langer, Former American football player (b. 1948)
• 2019 – Maria Dolors Renau, Spanish politician (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Vladimir Andreyev, Soviet-Russian actor, theater director, screenwriter and educator (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, Indian cardiologist (b. 1917)