The August 29, 2001 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 240 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 24 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, August 29, 2025, 299 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, August 29, 2026, in 65 days. You have lived for 9,065 days, or about 217,570 hours, or about 13,054,234 minutes, or about 783,254,040 seconds.
Date: 29 August 2001
By Tara Bahrampour (NYT)
Tara NYT
Voter News Service, eight-year-old consortium that provides exit polling data for news organizations, will open corporate headquarters with 17,000 square feet of space next week in small Brooklyn neighborhood called Dumbo (S)
Date: 30 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Associated Press reports that Justice Department official who approved an unusual subpoena of reporter John Solomon's telephone records last May was newly confirmed director of Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert S Mueller III; Solomon wrote about Federal probe of US Sen Robert G Torricelli (M)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Justice Department, apparently ignoring 21-year-old internal guidelines that have virtually eliminated federal subpoenas of reporters' phone records, has obtained home telephone records of Associated Press reporter John Solomon, who is covering federal investigation of Sen Robert G Torricelli; journalists' advocacy and professional organizations say such an effort signals attempt to undermine reporting; photo (M)
Date: 30 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Regent Communications Inc agrees to buy seven radio stations in Louisiana from ComCorp of Lafayette Inc for $39.6 million in cash (S)
Date: 30 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Principal Financial Group, mutual life insurer, files updated terms for its initial public offering, which is expected to raise as much as $2.1 billion (S)
Date: 30 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AES Corp offers to buy controlling stake in Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela for about $1.4 billion in cash (S)
Date: 30 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Affiliated Managers Group, asset management holding company, agrees to acquire 51 percent of Friess Associates, adviser to Brandywine Funds, for $247 million in cash (S)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Otis elevator unit of United Technologies Corp plans to cut as many as 580 jobs at plants in Indiana and Mexico as it consolidates production of high-rise elevators and cuts costs; will stop production in Mexico City and move work to Nogales, Mex (S)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CVS Corp agrees to pay $4 million to settle allegations it submitted false prescription claims; Justice Department says CVS and Revco chain it acquired in 1997 were accused of dispensing partial prescriptions because of insufficient stock, while billing government health insurance programs for full quantities prescribed; money will go to federal government, District of Columbia and 20 states (S)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
EM.TV and Merchandising AG of Germany says Kirch Holding has abandoned plan to buy stake on antitrust concerns; analysts say EM.TV wants to focus on children's programs (S)