August 29

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  • 1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

    1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

  • 1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.

    1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.

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

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

  • 2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.

    2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.

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