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Today in History - August 29th, 2009
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1991 - In Kiev, the republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to remain in the Soviet Union and negotiate a loose federation.
1965 - U.S. astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad landed safely to end the eight-day orbital flight of Gemini 5.
2008 - A dam break in Nepal sent flood waters from the Kosi River racing across northern India. At least 75 deaths were reported and more than 2 million people were chased from their homes.
1994 - Israel and the PLO signed a new agreement to shift West Bank administrative functions to the Palestinian National Authority.
2005 - Downgraded to a Category 4 but packing high storm surges and sustained winds of more than 140 miles an hour, Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore on the Gulf Coast, its eye crossing northeast Louisiana, just east of New Orleans, inflicting severe damage in New Orleans and along coastlines of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, with high winds and killer floods, becoming the costliest storm in history with reports of more than $125 billion in damage and more than 1,800 killed.
1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb at a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
2007 - South Korea negotiators said the Taliban would release 19 hostages held in Afghanistan for 41 days after South Korea promised to pull its troops from Afghanistan by year's end and ban its Christian missionary work there.
2008 - At least 32 people were reported killed in an earthquake that struck China's Sichman province. Authorities said more than 58,000 homes were damaged.
2004 - The Summer Olympics came to a close in Athens, Greece. The United States won 103 medals, 35 of them gold, led by swimmer Michael Phelps who took home six gold and two bronze medals.
1995 - Eduard Shevardnadze, the head of state in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, was slightly injured when a bomb exploded near his motorcade in Tbilisi.
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