^{The Beatles at their last concert before a paying audience, Candlestick Park, San Francisco}

Today in History

• Goodyear is founded (1898)
• Ishi, the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness (1911)
• The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb (1949)
• The US Air Force Academy opens (1958)
• Gemini V returns to Earth (1965)
• The Beatles play their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco (1966)
• Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast (2005)

Birthdays

• John Locke, philosopher (1632)
• Preston Sturges, filmmaker (1898)
• Barry Sullivan, actor (1912)
• Ingrid Bergman, actress (1915)
• Nathan Pritikin, nutritionist (1915)
• Isabel Sanford, actress (1917)
• Charlie Parker, saxophonist (1920)
• Richard Blackwell, fashion critic (1922)
• Richard Attenborough, actor and filmmaker (1923)
• Dinah Washington, singer (1924)
• John McCain, US senator and Presidential candidate (1936)
• Elliott Gould, actor (1938)
• James Brady, White House press secretary (1940)
• Robin Leach, television host (1941)
• Michael Jackson, musician (1958)
• Rebecca De Mornay, actress (1959)
• Meshell Ndegeocello, musician (1968)

* Ingrid Bergman was born and died on the same day, August 29.

Deaths

• Atahualpa, Incan emperor (1533)
• Edmond Hoyle, card game rules authority (1769)
• Brigham Young, Mormon leader (1877)
• William Spooner, Oxford don given to “spoonerisms” (1930)
• Eamon de Valera, Irish politician (1975)
• Jean Hagen, actress (1977)
• Lowell Thomas, journalist and author (1981)
• Ingrid Bergman, actress (1982)
• Lee Marvin, actor (1987)
• Gene Wilder, actor and filmmaker (2016)

Holidays and Celebrations

• Municipal Police Day (Poland)
• Individual Rights Day (Objectivists)
• International Day Against Nuclear Test (Kazakhstan and UN)
• Miner’s Day (Ukraine)
• National Sports Day (India)
• Telugu Language Day (India)
• Slovak National Uprising Anniversary (Slovakia)
• National Chop Suey Day (US)
• National Whiskey Sour Day (US)
• National Burger Day (UK)
• Commemoration of the Beheading of John the Baptist (various Christian traditions)

August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years). There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year.