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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, 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, 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, 1997 | Event | At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria. |
August 29th, 1996 | Event | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. |
August 29th, 1995 | Event | NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces. |
August 29th, 1991 | Event | Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. |
August 29th, 1982 | Event | The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
August 29th, 1970 | Event | Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar. |
August 29th, 1966 | Event | The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. |
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