September 29
is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in
leap years). There are 93 days remaining.
*
61 BC -
Pompey the Great celebrates his third
triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the
Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
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48 BC -
Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey
murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for
Julius Caesar.
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855 -
Pope Benedict III becomes
pope.
*
1364 -
Battle of Auray:
English forces defeat
French at
Brittany; end of the
Breton War of Succession*
1567 - At a dinner, the
Duke of Alba arrests the
Count of Egmont and the
Count of Horne for
treason.
*
1650 - Henry Robinson opens his
Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in
Threadneedle Street,
London*
1789 - The
U.S. War Department first establishes regular
army with a strength of several hundred men.
* 1789 - The first
U.S. Congress adjourns.
*
1829 -
London's reorganized police force, the
Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.
*
1850 - The
Catholic heirarchy is re-established in
England and
Wales by
Pope Pius IX.
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1864 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
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1907 - The cornerstone is laid at
Washington National Cathedral in the
U.S. capital.
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1918 - The
Hindenburg Line is broken by
Allied forces during
World War I.
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1938 -
Britain,
France,
Nazi Germany and
Italy sign the
Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the
Sudetenland region of
Czechoslovakia.
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1939 -
Poland is invaded by
Nazi Germany and the
Soviet Union.
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1941 - The
Babi Yar massacre begins.
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1943 -
U.S. General
Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Italian Marshal
Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the
British ship
Nelson off the shore of
Malta.
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1954 - The convention establishing
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
*
1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radiation is released in an explosion at the Soviet
Mayak nuclear plant.
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1962 -
Alouette 1, the first
Canadian satellite is launched.
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1963 - The second period of the
Second Vatican Council opens.
*
1965 - The
NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
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1972 -
Sino-Japanese relations:
Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the
People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the
Republic of China.
*
1988 -
NASA resumes
space shuttle flights, grounded after the
Challenger disaster.
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1992 -
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
*
1996 - Nintendo released the
Nintendo 64 in North America.
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2001 - The
Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S.
newspaper dating back to
1839, ceases publication.
*
2003 -
Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
*
2004 - The
asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of
Earth.
* 2004 - The
Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry
SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.
*
2005 -
US Senate confirms
John Roberts to be the next
Chief Justice of the United States.
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1321 -
John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d.
1387)
*
1328 -
Joan of Kent, wife of
Edward, the Black Prince (d.
1385)
*
1388 -
Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of
Henry IV of England (d.
1421)
*
1511 -
Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d.
1553)
*
1547 -
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d.
1616)
*
1548 -
William V, Duke of Bavaria (d.
1626)
*
1561 -
Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d.
1615)
*
1636 -
Thomas Tenison,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1715)
*
1639 -
Lord William Russell, English politician (d.
1683)
*
1640 -
Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d.
1720)
*
1678 -
Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d.
1766)
*
1691 -
Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d.
1781)
*
1703 -
François Boucher, French painter (d.
1770)
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1725 -
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d.
1774)
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1758 -
Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d.
1805)
*
1786 -
Guadalupe Victoria, first
President of Mexico (d.
1843)
*
1810 -
Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d.
1865)
*
1843 -
Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d.
1882)
*
1864 -
Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d.
1936)
*
1895 -
J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d.
1980).
*
1901 -
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1954)
* 1901 -
Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d.
1981)
*
1904 -
Greer Garson, British actress (d.
1996)
*
1907 -
Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d.
1998)
*
1908 -
Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d.
1967)
*
1912 -
Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
*
1913 -
Trevor Howard, English actor (d.
1988)
* 1913 -
Stanley Kramer, American film director (d.
2001)
*
1920 -
Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
1930 -
Colin Dexter, British author of
Inspector Morse novels
*
1931 -
James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
* 1931 -
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
*
1934 -
Lance Gibbs, West Indian cricketer
*
1935 -
Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
*
1936 -
Silvio Berlusconi,
Prime Minister of Italy*
1938 -
Wim Kok,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands*
1939 -
Larry Linville, American actor (d.
2000)
* 1939 -
Molly Haskell, American film critic
*
1940 -
Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
*
1941 -
Fred West, British serial killer
*
1942 -
Madeline Kahn, American actress (d.
1999)
* 1942 -
Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida
* 1942 -
Ian McShane, British actor
* 1942 -
Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
* 1942 -
Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
*
1943 -
Lech Wałęsa,
President of Poland, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize*
1948 -
Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
*
1951 -
Michelle Bachelet,
President of Chile* 1951 -
Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d.
1977)
* 1951 -
Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
* 1951 -
Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
*
1952 -
Max Sandlin, American politician
*
1955 -
Tjibbe Joustra, Dutch artist
*
1956 -
Sebastian Coe, British athlete
*
1957 -
Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
*
1960 -
Jennifer Rush, American singer
*
1961 -
Stephanie Miller, American comedian and liberal talk show host
*
1962 -
Roger Bart, American actor
*
1963 -
Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
*
1964 -
Les Claypool, American bassist (
Primus)
*
1966 -
Jill Whelan, American actress
*
1970 -
Emily Lloyd, British actress
*
1971 -
Sibel Tüzün,
Turkish singer
*
1972 -
Robert Webb, British actor, comidian, and writer.
*
1974 -
Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer.
*
1976 -
Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
* 1976 -
Darren Byfield, English football player
* 1976 -
Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
*
1977 -
Debelah Morgan,
R&B coloratura soprano.
*
1978 -
Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
*
1979 -
Beau Zimmer, telejournalist
*
1981 -
Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
*
1982 -
Rob Smith Irish musician and singer/songwriter
*1982 -
Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
*
1984 -
Per Mertesacker, German football player
*
1364 -
Charles, Duke of Brittany*
1560 - King
Gustav I of Sweden (b.
1496)
*
1637 -
Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
*
1703 -
Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b.
1610)
*
1800 -
Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b.
1729)
*
1804 -
Michael Hillegas, first
Treasurer of the United States (b.
1728)
*
1833 - King
Ferdinand VII of Spain (b.
1784)
*
1887 -
Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b.
1810)\
*
1889 -
Louis Faidherbe, French general (b.
1818)
*
1902 -
William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b.
1825)
* 1902 -
Émile Zola, French writer (b.
1840)
*
1908 -
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b.
1839)
*
1925 -
Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1851)
*
1927 -
Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1860)
*
1930 -
Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b.
1844)
*
1937 -
Ray Ewry, American athlete (b.
1873)
*
1967 -
Carson McCullers, American author (b.
1917) (
*
1970 -
Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b.
1886)
*
1973 -
W. H. Auden, English poet (b.
1907)
*
1975 -
Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager
*
1981 -
Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b.
1913)
*
1982 -
Monty Stratton, baseball player (b.
1912)
*
1988 -
Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b.
1912)
*
1997 -
Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b.
1923)
*
1994 -
Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b.
1968)
*
1998 -
Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b.
1917)
*
2001 -
Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b.
1923)
*
RC Saints -
Michaelmas - Christian feast of the
Archangels
St. Michael,
St. Gabriel, and
St. Raphael*Also see
September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
England,
Ireland - One of the four
Quarter days in the
Irish calendar*
Argentina,
Inventor's Day -
László József Bíró's birthday.
*
French Republican Calendar -
Amarante (Amaranth) Day, eighth day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
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