Thursday, August 29, 2024

History for August 29

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com 
John Locke 1632
  • 1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake.
  • 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
  • 1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.
  • 1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
  • 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.

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