September 29

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

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• AD 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 diner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
• 1789 – United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.
• 1789 – First U.S. Congress adjourns.
• 1829 – London's reorganized police force goes on duty, later becomes known as Scotland Yard.
• 1864 – Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1902 – Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
• 1907 – Cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral.
• 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.
• 1954 – Convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was signed.
• 1961 – The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Sheldon's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discover by Columbia Records representative John Hammond
• 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satalite is launched.
• 1963 – Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council.
• 1964 – Mafalda, a comic strip by the Argentine cartoonist Quino, first appeared in newspapers.
• 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.
• 1996 – Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
• 1990 – Washington National Cathedral is completed.
• 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.
• 2001 – The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within 4 lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004  – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.

• 2004  – The Montreal Expos play their last game at Olympic Stadium.

Births

• 106 BC – Pompey, Roman statesman and general (d. 48 BC)
• AD 1328 – Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
• 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
• 1573 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (d. 1610)
• 1636 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
• 1725 – Robert Clive, general and statesman (d. 1774)
• 1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
• 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
• 1895 – J.B. Rhine, parapsychologist and ESP researcher (d. 1980).
• 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, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American 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, American 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)
• 1942  – Clarence William Nelson (Bill Nelson), U.S. Senator from Florida 2000-
• 1943 – Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician
• 1948 – Bryant Gumbel, television personality
• 1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
• 1951  – Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
• 1952 – Max Sandlin, American politician
• 1956 – Sebastian Coe, British track and field champion
• 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, comedian and actor
• 1961 – Rebecca DeMornay, actress
• 1963 – Dave Andreychuk, hockey player
• 1964 – Les Claypool, bassist of Primus
• 1964  – Tom Sizemore, actor
• 1966 – Jill Whelan, actress
• 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballerer
• 1978 – Kurt Nilsen, winner of World Idol and Norwegian Pop Idol contests
• 1981 – Siarhei Rutenka, handball player

Deaths

• 48 BC – Pompey, the Great, Roman general (assassinated)
• 855 – Lothar, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1364 – Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany
• 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1804 – Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States
• 1902 – Emile Zola, French writer
• 1902  – William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet
• 1908 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer
• 1937 – Ray Ewry, American athlete
• 1967 – Carson McCullers, American author
• 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, actor
• 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Casey Stengel, baseball player and coach
• 1982 – Monty Stratton, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Charles Addams, cartoonist
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, artist
• 1994 – Cheb Hasni, singer
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California
• 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam

Holidays and observances

• Michaelmas – Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel
• Christian feast day of St. Gabriel the Archangel
• One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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