Michelle Carr Crowe’s Four Fascinating Facts Occurring On August 29

Michelle Carr Crowe’s Four Fascinating Facts Occurring On August 29

By Cupertino real estate agent Michelle Carr Crowe

When I take a break from selling houses in San Jose, Cupertino and Santa Clara, Calif., I love learning new facts. Here are four fascinating facts from this date in history, August 29, courtesy of Wikipedia.  

·         1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.

·         1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.

·         1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.

·         1911 – Ishi,  believed to be the last remaining member of the Yahi, a group of the Yana people, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California near Oroville. Ishi is considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans. 

Ishi means "man" in the Yana language. Anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave this name to the man because in the Yahi culture it is rude to ask a person's name. Ishi was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who both studied him and hired him as a research assistant until his death.

Image of Ishi is originally from the University of California, Berkeley, and is in the public domain.

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