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Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, was found dead in his west Georgia home; he was 44.
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A group of eight Iranians, including two diplomats, were released by US forces after being detained a day earlier because unauthorized weapons were found in their cars. An aide said Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganize the force. Marines from the 5th Regimental Combat Team killed 12 suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters and destroyed two vehicles in fighting near the Anbar city of Fallujah. 4 al-Qaida fighters and two Sunni tribesmen opposed to the terror movement were killed in gunfights in Haqlaniyah. 2 US service members, a Marine and an Army soldier, were killed in fighting in Anbar province. An American soldier died from wounds suffered the day before in fighting near the northern city of Kirkuk. A US soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack during combat operations in Iraq's eastern Diyala province.
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A new report said CEOs of American companies made an average of $10.8 million last year, more than 364 times the average pay of American workers. The 14th annual study was a joint report from the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
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A senior official said Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and former rival Benazir Bhutto have reached an agreement regarding Musharraf's military role, a key step toward a power-sharing deal.
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Alfred Peet (b.1920), Dutch-born specialty coffee pioneer, died in Oregon. His first shop opened in Berkeley, Ca., in 1966. He sold the business in 1979, but stayed on as a coffee buyer until 1984, when Baldwin and Reynolds, co-owners of Starbucks, along with other investors bought 4 Bay Area locations of Peet’s. They later sold the chain to Howard Shultz, who entered a no-compete agreement with Peet’s in the Bay Area. Peet’s became a public company in 2001.
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Britain unveiled a statue of Nelson Mandela outside the houses of Parliament, honoring the South African anti-apartheid campaigner as one of the great leaders of his era.
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China began selling $79 billion in bonds to finance a state agency that will invest the country's foreign currency reserves.
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- Current / Future Events
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1992 –
Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1990 –
Sam Stern, British chef and author
1987 –
Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1986 –
Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
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Jeffrey Licon, American actor
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A+, American rapper
1982 –
Leon Washington, American football player
1981 –
Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
1981 –
Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1981 –
Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
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August, 29
- Births
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2008,
Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
2008,
Michael Schoenberg, Geophysicist (b. 1939)
2007,
Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2007,
Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007,
Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007,
James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2004,
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2003,
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
2003,
Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2003,
Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
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August, 29
- Deaths
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