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August 29: Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (Catholicism, Anglicanism); Qixi Festival in China (2025)
Daimler Reitwagen replica
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Daimler Reitwagen replica
- 1475 β France signed the Treaty of Picquigny with England, freeing Louis XI to deal with the threat posed by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
- 1885 β Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).
- 1911 β The last member of the Yahi, known as Ishi, emerged from the wilderness near Oroville, California, to join European American society.
- 1959 β Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
- 1960 β Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.
- Basil I (d. 886)
- Hamida Banu Begum (d. 1604)
- Ingrid Bergman (b. 1915; d. 1982)
- Thomas Tuchel (b. 1973)
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