Don Matheson was an American soldier and policeman who later became a television actor, perhaps best known for his continuing role in Irwin Allen's series Land of the Giants.

1929John H. Moore II, American lawyer and judge (died 2013)^[†]

John Henry Moore II was an American lawyer and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

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1929Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (born 1847)^[†]

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), explaining, "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government." She tried to broaden women's chances of higher education, as a governor of Bedford College, London and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1871. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square.

Headlines from August 5, 1929

Flight Marks the Sixth Time Airships Have Crossed Ocean

DR. ECKENER TELLS OF BATTLING WINDS; Fought Storms at Beginning and End of Trip, but Motors Worked Perfectly, He Says. ADDS ALL HAD A GOOD TIME Company Congenial, He Asserts --Calls the Voyage the Most Interesting Ship Has Made.

CITY PEERS EAGERLY INTO SKY; WAITING FOR THE GRAF ZEPPELIN TO SAIL INTO PORT AT LAKEHURST.

TRIP COMFORTABLE, PASSENGERS SAY; They Slept Well, Ate Heavily and Never Had Occasion to Feel Fear. PROMENADED ON DECK Take-Off in the Darkness Is Called Their Most Thrilling Experience.

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