August 29th
Today in America's Present Past
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: American forces withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester.
1786 | Shays’s Rebellion occurs.
1809 | Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born.
1876 | Entrepreneur and inventor Charles F. Kettering was born.
1877 | Cleric Brigham Young died.
1898 | The Goodyear Tire Company was formed.
1899 | General Lyman Lemnitzer was born.
1909 | American aviator Glenn Curtiss wins 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 | POW and political, 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.
1967 | SCOTUS: Justice Neil Gorsuch was born.
1970 | Civil Rights: Chicano Moratorium riot in Los Angeles, California.
1987 | Actor Lee Marvin died.
1997 | Netflix was founded.
2005 | Hurricane Katrina made U.S. landfall.
2016 | Actor Gene Wilder died.