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.
• 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.
• 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 the Great, Roman statesman and general (d. 48 BC)
• AD 1328 - Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, 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, 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)
• 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, stand-up comedian and actor
• 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, actress
• 1963 - Dave Andreychuk, NHL player
• 1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore, actor
• 1966 - Jill Whelan, actress
• 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
• 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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