Composer Sylvia Fine

Events in 1913 and 29-8

Events in US in the birth year of Sylvia Fine

• Garment workers strike in New York and Boston; win pay raises and reduced hours. Background: Labor Unions
• Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) and 17th (popular election of U.S. senators) adopted. Background: Amendments to the Constitution
• Bill creating U.S. Federal Reserve System becomes law.
• Woodrow Wilson becomes 28th U.S. President.
• Armory Show in New York introduces Americans to European modern art as well as the American Ashcan School.

Birthday Sylvia Fine (29-8) in history

• Day 29-8 year 1533: Atahualpa, the last king of the Incas, was ruthlessly murdered by Francisco Pizarro.
• Day 29-8 year 1786: The day of the Shays Rebellion, a Massachusetts peasant uprising against the state government.
• Day 29-8 year 1842: The Treaty of Nanking was signed, ending the Opium Wars and ceding the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
• Day 29-8 year 1877: Brigham Young died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Day 29-8 year 1949: The U.S.S.R. tested their first atomic bomb.
• Day 29-8 year 1957: Strom Thurmond ended the longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history. He spoke for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill; the bill passed.
• Day 29-8 year 1966: The Beatles played their last major live concert at Candlestick Park, California.
• Day 29-8 year 1991: The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution.
• Day 29-8 year 2005: Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, destroying beachfront towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, displacing a million people, and killing more than 1,000.