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May 29 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

1. 1991Tan Zhongyi
2. 2001Supreme Court of the United States
3. 2004World War II Memorial
4. 2005France
5. 20082008 Iceland earthquake
6. 2011Portland, Oregon
7. 20122012 Northern Italy earthquakes
8. 2015One World Trade Center
9. 2020Norilsk oil spill
10. 2021Cessna Citation I
11. 2022Tara Air Flight 197

Also in 1991

• September 9TajikistanTajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• September 11Continental Express Flight 2574Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
• March 14EscondidaEscondida, one of the most productive copper mines in the world, was officially inaugurated.
• September 12Space Shuttle DiscoveryNASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
• September 17EstoniaEstonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• September 17LinuxThe first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
• September 5Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
• October 201991 Uttarkashi earthquakeAn earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.

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Sources

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