AUGUST 29
1533:Atahualpa, the last emperor of the Incas, is treacherously executed
by the soldiers of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, despite being
promised his freedom after giving the Spaniards a ransom of 24 tons of gold and silver.
1957: Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ends the longest
filibuster in Senate history; he finally sits down after talking for 24
hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which passes later that night.
1965: Gordon Cooper, commander of the Gemini V spacecraft,
speaks via radio to Scott Carpenter, a fellow former Project Mercury
pilot, who is aboard the underwater laboratory Sealab II in the Pacific
Ocean. It is the first communication between the two great frontiers of
modern exploration — outer space and the depths of the ocean.
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