August 29
People born on this day are Virgo.
- 1975
El Tacnazo: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian Prime Minister carries out a coup d'état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President.
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Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
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Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
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Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
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Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
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At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
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Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.
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Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.
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Sayed Ayatollah 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.
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Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,392 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
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The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson.
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2008Rio Ngumoha, English footballer
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1996Daryll Neita, British sprinter
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1994Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgian tennis player
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1993Lucas Cruikshank, American YouTuber and actor
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1993Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter from One Direction (died 2024)
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1992Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
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1991Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
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1991Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
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1990Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer
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1990Chris Taylor, American baseball player
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1990Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
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1986Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator
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