September 29

People born on this day are Libra.

On this day in history01

1991
A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
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1992
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
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2004
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
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2004
Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
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2005
John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.
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2006
A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
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2007
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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2008
The stock market crashes with the Dow Jones dropping a then record 778 points after the United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails during the beginning stages of the Great Recession.
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2011
The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
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2013
Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
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2016
Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
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2019
Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
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