Volume 13 , Issue 35

This Day In History (August 29)

On Aug. 29, 1915, Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish international film star, was born. Following her death on August 29, 1982, her obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary.

On This Date, @9 August . . .

• 1533 - The last Incan king, Atahualpa, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
• 1632 - English philosopher John Locke was born in Somerset.
• 1877 - Brigham Young, the second president of the Mormon Church, died in Salt Lake City at age 76.
• 1944 - American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
• 1957 - Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., ended the longest filibuster in Senate history after talking for 24 hours, 18 minutes against a civil rights bill.
• 1958 - Pop singer Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Ind.
• 1965 - Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
• 1966 - The Beatles performed their last concert, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

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