August 29th, 2008

Today in History

1995:
NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

708:
Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

1996:
A Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

1910:
Japan changes Korea's name to Ch?sen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.

1982:
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.