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History of 29 August

  • 1990 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
  • 1991 – The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party’s role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • 1991 – The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.
  • 1992 – The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.
  • 1994 – Mario Lemieux announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He would sit out the National Hockey Leagues (NHL) 1994-95 season.
  • 1998 – Northwest Airlines pilots went on strike after their union rejected a last-minute company offer.
  • 2004 – India test-launched a nuclear-capable missle able to carry a one-ton warhead. The weapon had a range of 1,560 miles.
  • 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
  • 2012 – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.

Celebrating Birthday Today

  • 1981 – Geneviève Jeanson, Canadian cyclist
  • 1981 – Jay Ryan, New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
  • 1982 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)
  • 1982 – Carlos Delfino, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
  • 1982 – Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
  • 1983 – Antti Niemi, Finnish ice hockey player
  • 1986 – Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator
  • 1986 – Lea Michele, American actress and singer
  • 1987 – Tony Kane, Irish footballer
  • 1990 – Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer
  • 1990 – Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
  • 1991 – Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
  • 1991 – Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
  • 1992 – Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
  • 1992 – Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
  • 1993 – Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter

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