29th August 1350 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. 1475 The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England. 1628 The birth of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. 1782 The British battleship HMS Royal George sank off Spithead with the loss of more than 900 crew while repairs were being carried out beneath the ships waterline. 1807 British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge. 1831 Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer at the Royal Institute, London. 1833 Legislation to settle child labour laws was passed in England. The legislation was called the Factory Act. 1842 The Treaty of Nanking was signed between the British and the Chinese, ending the Opium War, and leasing the Hong Kong territories to Britain. 1882 The England cricket team lost to Australia, in England, for the first time. 1895 At the George Hotel, Huddersfield, twenty-one rugby clubs met to form the Northern Union. 1918 Britain’s first police strike began at midnight, as 6000 policemen campaigned for better pay. 1923 The birth of Richard Attenborough, English actor and director. 1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda (40 miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean) were voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. 1947 James Hunt, grand prix racing driver was born. 1966 British group The Beatles gave their last live concert performance to a crowd of around 25,000 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, USA. 1981 Vandals slashed the picture of Diana, Princess of Wales hanging at the National Portrait Gallery in London. 1986 Britains oldest twins, May and Marjorie Chavasse, both received telegrams from the Queen, to celebrate reaching their 100th birthday. 1997 Britains Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam invited Sinn Féin, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), to all-party talks on Northern Ireland. 2011 Private security firm G4S sacked two members of staff who tagged the false leg of 29 year old Rochdale offender Christopher Lowcock, allowing him to remove it and flout a court-imposed curfew for driving and drug offences, as well as possession of an offensive weapon. 2013 Lorry driver Ethen Roberts was jailed for five years and three months after admitting causing the deaths of two people when his lorry toppled on to their car on the M62 in West Yorkshire as he read a text message.
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