Fashion designer Marc Ecko

Events in 1972 and 29-8

Events in US in the birth year of Marc Ecko

• Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at Laurel, Md., political rally (May 15).
• Five men are apprehended by police in attempt to bug Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex—start of the Watergate scandal (June 17).
• US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is unconstitutional (June 29).

Birthday Marc Ecko (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.