August 29 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 29
In the headlines today:

1991	The Communist Party ends 75 years of power in the USSR.
1987	Academy Award-winner Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, Arizona, at age 63.
1977	Lou Brock breaks Ty Cobb's record by stealing the 893rd base of his baseball career.
1966	The Beatles make what would utimately be their last live performance with a show at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
1965	Gemini V, with astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad and Gordon Cooper aboard, splashes down after eight days of orbiting the Earth.
1957	US Senator Strom Thurmond talks nonstop for 24 hours, 18 minutes to filibuster a civil rights bill.
1896	The Chinese-American dish Chop Suey is invented by the personal chef to China's US Ambassador, while on a trip to New York City.
1877	Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.
1533	Atahualpa, the last Incan king of Peru, is murdered at the request of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.