Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 29, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 98 degrees (1953)

Low temperature: 43 degrees (1982)

Precipitation: 2.02 inches (1955)

Snowfall: None

1893: Chicago-born inventor Whitcomb L. Judson received a patent — one of his many — for “Clasp locker or unlocker for shoes” then displayed it at the city’s World’s Columbian Exposition . It eventually became the zipper .

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1935: The Chicago Bears defeated a team of all-stars — including future President Gerald Ford

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