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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48969)	8/29/2005 5:30:23 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

August 29: 1526: Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire defeated and killed the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács. 1786: Disgruntled farmers in Western Massachusetts, United States, angered by high tax burdens and disenfranchisement, started the Shays Rebellion. 1907: The Quebec Bridge in Quebec City, Canada, collapsed during construction, killing 75 workers. 1944: Slovak troops turned against the pro-Nazi regime of Jozef Tiso and the German Wehrmacht, starting the Slovak National Uprising.