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This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history.
History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past.
It is important to know dates and events in the past.
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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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