TODAY IN HISTORY - AUGUST 29TH

1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713) dies.

1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and author (d. 1894) is born.

1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.

1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.

1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.

1923 – Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014) is born.

1931 – David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867) dies.

1940 – James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014) is born.

1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (d. 2009) is born.

1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.

1979 – Jeffrey R. MacDonald is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.

2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.