What happend on 29th August

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30.08
2005

Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing 1281 and costing over 100 billion dollars in damage.

2003

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.

1997

Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz bludgeons to death Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky, USA, the first of nine victims.

1997

At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

1996

A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

1995

NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

1991

Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

1982

The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

1966

Execution of Sayyid Qutb, a leading theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

1966

Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco, California.