August 29th

1756: Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War... which strangely lasts 4 years.


1786: Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens. Being from Massachusetts, the farmers naturally were demanding even higher taxes.


1911: Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. He immediately offers them $10 in free chips and tax-free cigarettes.


1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party... until they are re-activated by Barack Obama in the United States 18 years later.