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| August 29th, 2007 | Event | A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base. |
| August 29th, 2007 | Death | Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (born in 1962) |
| August 29th, 2007 | Death | Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (born in 1916) |
| August 29th, 2007 | Death | Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet s Coffee & Tea (born in 1920) |
| August 29th, 2007 | Death | James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (born in 1914) |
| August 29th, 2005 | Event | Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage. |
| August 29th, 2004 | Death | Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (born in 1942) |
| August 29th, 2003 | Event | Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. |
| August 29th, 2003 | Death | Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939) |
| August 29th, 2003 | Death | Patrick Procktor, English artist (born in 1936) |
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