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WEDDING DAY ::  August 29, 1966

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Thanks to our kids for  placing this in Saturday's Brandon Sun - Aug 27, 2016

The original photo appeared in the Winnipeg Tribune Magazine May 30, 1980

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. POP TOP TEN ~ AUGUST 29, 1966 1 Beatles ~ Eleanor Rigby  2 Beatles ~ Yellow Submarine 3 Hollies ~ Bus Stop 4 Bobby Hebb ~ Sunny 5 Donovan ~ Sunshine Superman  6 Carlton Showband ~ The Merry Ploughboy, The (In The Green) 7 Abbey Tavern Singers ~ The Off To Dublin In The Green 8 The Happenings ~ See You In September 9 Wilson Pickett ~ Land Of 1,000 Dances 10 Supremes ~ You Can't Hurry Love OTHER SONGS ON THE POP CHART The Rolling Stones ~ Mother's Little Helper Napolean XIV ~ They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haa!  Beach Boys ~ Wouldn't It Be Nice  Beach Boys ~ God Only Knows Sandpipers ~ Guantanamera Cyrkle ~ Turn-Down Day Walker, Jr. & The All Stars ~ How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Lovin' Spoonful ~ Summer In The City  Lee Dorsey ~ Working In The Coal Mine  Simon & Garfunkel ~ Dangling Conversation The Troggs ~ Wild Thing  Lewis Trio, Ramsey Wade In The Water  The Association ~ Cherish  Ray Conniff Singers ~ Somewhere, My Love  Los Bravos  ~ Black Is Black  Surfaris ~ Wipe Out See: The Illiterate Top Ten Review of August 29, 1966

The first Tarzan television series was about to air. It starred Ron Ely and ran for 57 episodes, ending in April 1968.

Patrick McGoohan quit the popular spy series Danger Man after filming only two episodes of the fourth season, in order to produce and star in The Prisoner, which began filming in September.

CBC had started colour broadcasts. All three US networks are broadcasting in color regularly.

Star Trek was about to premiere on CBS.
 

Interesting People Born on Our Special Day

Preston Sturges born on August 29, 1898

Ingrid Bergman born on August 29, 1915

Charlie Parker born on August 29, 1920

Richard Attenborough born on August 29, 1923

John McCain born on August 29, 1936

Elliott Gould born on August 29, 1938

Michael Jackson born on August 29, 1958

August 29th Events in History

• In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking was signed between the British and Chinese, ending the first Opium War. The treaty confirmed the ceding of Hong Kong island to Britain.
• In 1885, the first motorcycle was patented, built by Gottlied Daimler in Germany.
• In 1915, Ingrid Bergman, Swedish film actress, born. Best known for her roles in "Casablanca," "Gaslight" for which she won an Oscar and "Autumn Sonata."
• In 1916, Gen. Von Hindenburg became German Chief of Staff, controlling all German land forces during World War One.
• In 1920, Charley (Bird) Parker, U.S. jazz musician and composer, born.
• In 1943, Denmark abandoned its policy of co-existing with the occupying Germans and began an uprising.
• In 1945, U.S. forces landed in Japan following the Japanese surrender.
• In 1949, the Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb. The news of the test only emerged on September 22 when the United States, Britain and Canada announced they had detected it.
• In 1965, the U.S. Gemini V spacecraft, with astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad on board, splashed down after an eight-day flight.
• In 1966, the Beatles played their last live concert to a crowd of 25,000 at Candlestick Park, California.

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