September 29
September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.
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Events:
- 61 BC - Pompey, the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars
- 855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope
- 1364 - Battle of Auray - English forces defeat French at Brittany
- 1789 - United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.
- 1789 - First United States Congress adjourns
- 1829 - London's reorganized police force goes on duty. Later became known as Scotland Yard.
- 1864 - Battle of New Market Heights
- 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
- 1918 - Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I
- 1938 - Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
- 1941 - Babi Yar massacre begins
- 1943 - United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
- 1944 - Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia
- 1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council
- 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster
- 2004 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar distances of Earth.
Births:
- 106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman statesman and general
- 1328 - Joan of Kent
- 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author († 1616)
- 1725 - Robert Clive, general and statesman († 1774)
- 1758 - Lord Horatio Nelson, British admiral († 1805)
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist († 1954)
- 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist († 1981)
- 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress († 1996)
- 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman († 1998)
- 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete
- 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director
- 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor († 1988)
- 1913 - Stanley Kramer, film director
- 1931 - Anita Ekberg, actress
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
- 1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster
- 1939 - Larry Linville, actor († 2000)
- 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1942 - Madeline Kahn, actress († 1999)
- 1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician
- 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, television personality
- 1956 - Sebastian Coe, track and field champion
- 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, actress
- 1964 - Tom Sizemore, actor
- 1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus
- 1966 - Jill Whelan, actress
- 1967 - Craig Bowie, musician/composer, computer scientist
Deaths:
- 48 BC - Pompey, the Great, Roman General, assassinated.
- 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
- 855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia
- 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States
- 1902 - Emile Zola, important writer
- 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet
- 1908 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer
- 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, automobile pioneer
- 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor
- 1967 - Carson McCullers, author
- 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
- 1975 - Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach
- 1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
- 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist
- 1998 - Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles, California
- 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam
Holidays:
- Michaelmas - Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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