September 29

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and Observances

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; end of the Breton War of Succession
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 becomes known as Scotland Yard.
1864 - Battle of New Market Heights is fought.
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.
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.
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 (d. 48 BC)
1328 - Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author (d. 1616)
1725 - Robert Clive, general and statesman (d. 1774)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (d. 1954)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist (d. 1981)
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman (d. 1998)
1908 - Eddie Tolan, US athlete (d. 1967)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director
1913 - Trevor Howard, actor (d. 1988)
1913 - Stanley Kramer, film director (d. 2001)
1931 - Anita Ekberg, actress
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, US musician
1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster
1939 - Larry Linville, actor (d. 2000)
1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
1942 - Madeline Kahn, actress (d. 1999)
1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, television personality
1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1956 - Sebastian Coe, British track and field champion
1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, actress
1963 - Dave Andreychuk, NHL player
1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus
1964 - Tom Sizemore, actor
1966 - Jill Whelan, actress
1967 - Craig Bowie, musician/composer, computer scientist
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player

Deaths

48 BC - Pompey, the Great, Roman general (assassinated)
235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia
1364 - Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany, in the battle of Auray
1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
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
1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete
1942 - Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud, in Theresienstadt concentration camp
1967 - Carson McCullers, author
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
1975 - Casey Stengel, US 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 and Observances

Michaelmas - Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel
One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar.

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