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September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 93 days remaining in the year on this date.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire .
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 - Pompey the Great is assassinated after landing in Egypt on his 58th birthday (records are unclear, may have occurred September 28 ).
440 - Leo I becomes pope .
855 - Benedict III becomes pope.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England .
1364 - Battle of Auray : English forces defeat French at Brittany ; end of the Breton War of Succession .
1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
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 dating service - in Threadneedle Street , London .
1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London , also known as the Met , is founded.
1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX .
1864 - Sign of the Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal .
1864 - American Civil War : The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1911 - Italy declares war to the Ottoman Empire .
1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I .
1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico .
1938 - Britain , France , Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement , allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia .
1939 - World War II : capitulation of Poland to Germany .
1941 - Holocaust in Kiev , Ukraine : German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30 , 1941 .
1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson Malta .
1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research ) is signed.
1954 - Major League Baseball : Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch " at The Polo Grounds in game one of the World Series .
1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk .
1962 - Alouette 1 ,Canadian satellite , is launched.
1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
1971 - Oman joins the Arab League .
1972 - Sino-Japanese relations : Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China .
1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland .
1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster , with STS-26 .
Births 106 BC - Pompey the Great , consul of Rome , (d. 48 BC )
4 BC - Jesus Christ , most probable date of birth (d. 33 AD )
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 , son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421 )
1511 - Miguel Servet , 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 )
1571 - Caravaggio , Italian artist (d. 1610 )
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 )
1725 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , British general and statesman (d. 1774 )
1758 - Horatio Nelson , British admiral (d. 1805 )
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria , 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843 )
1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm , French mathematician (d. 1850 )
1803 - Mercator Cooper , American sea captain (d. 1872 )
1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell , British novelist (d. 1865 )
1842 - Louis J. Weichmann , chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902 )
1843 - Mikhail Skobelev , Russian general (d. 1882 )
1853 - Princess Thyra , daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933 )
1864 - Alexandra Kitchin , British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925 )
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno , Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936 )
1881 - Ludwig von Mises , Austrian Economist
1895 - J.B. Rhine , American parapsychologist (d. 1980 )
1895 - Roscoe Turner , American aviator and racer (d. 1970 )
1897 - Herbert Agar , American journalist and historian (d. 1980 )
1898 - Trofim Lysenko , Stalinist biologist (d. 1976 )
1901 - Enrico Fermi , Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954 )
1901 - Lanza del Vasto , Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981 )
1904 - Greer Garson , British actress (d. 1996 )
1907 - Gene Autry , American actor and businessman (d. 1998 )
1908 - Eddie Tolan , American athlete (d. 1967 )
1910 - Virginia Bruce , American actress (d. 1982 )
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
1922 - Lizabeth Scott , American actress
1923 - Stan Berenstain , American children's author (d. 2005 )
1924 - Steve Forrest , American actor
1930 - Colin Dexter , British author of Inspector Morse novels
1931 - Anita Ekberg , Swedish actress
1931 - James Watson Cronin , American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Robert Benton , American screenwriter and director
1932 - Mehmood , Indian Actor
1934 - Lance Gibbs , West Indian cricketer
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis , American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi , former Prime Minister of Italy
1938 - Wim Kok , Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 - Tommy Boyce , American songwriter
1939 - Molly Haskell , American film critic
1939 - Larry Linville , American actor (d. 2000 )
1940 - Nicola Di Bari , Italian singer
1941 - Fred West , British serial killer
1942 - Madeline Kahn , American actress (d. 1999 )
1942 - Felice Gimondi , Italian cyclist
1942 - Ian McShane , British actor
1942 - Bill Nelson , U.S. Senator from Florida
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty , French jazz violinist
1942 - Steve Tesich , Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996 )
1943 - Mohammad Khatami , former President of Iran
1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts , American genealogist
1943 - Lech Wałęsa , President of Poland , Nobel Peace Prize winner
1944 - Mike Post , American composer
1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas , Greek composer
1947 - Martin Ferrero , American actor
1948 - Bryant Gumbel , American television personality
1948 - Mark Farner , American guitarist Grand Funk
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann , German jazz clarinetist
1949 - George Dalaras , Greek singer
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
1953 - Warren Cromartie , Major League Baseball player
1956 - Sebastian Coe , British athlete
1957 - Andrew Dice Clay , American comedian and actor
1957 - Sokratis Malamas , Greek singer and composer
1961 - Stephanie Miller , American comedian
1962 - Roger Bart , American actor
1962 - Al Pitrelli , American musician, guitarist
1963 - Dave Andreychuk , Canadian hockey player
1963 - Les Claypool , American bassist (Primus )
1966 - Jill Whelan , American actress
1967 - Brett Anderson , British musician/singer (Suede , The Tears )
1968 - Patrick Burns , American television presenter
1968 - Samir Soni , Indian film actor
1969 - Erika Eleniak , American actress and Playboy Playmate
1969 - Aleks Syntek , Mexican singer
1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri , Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner , American actress
1970 - Emily Lloyd , British actress
1971 - Sibel Tüzün , Turkish singer
1971 - Mackenzie Crook , British actor and comedian
1972 - Robert Webb , British actor, comedian, and writer
1972 - Oliver Gavin , British racing car driver
1973 - Joe Hulbig , American ice hockey player
1973 - Athanasios Michalopoulos , Greek volleyball player
1974 - Brian Ash , American film producer
1975 - Albert Celades , Spanish football player
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian football player
1976 - Darren Byfield , English football player
1976 - Oscar Sevilla , Spanish cyclist
1977 - Wade Brookbank , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Debelah Morgan , American R&B singer
1977 - Won Bin , South Korean actor
1978 - Kurt Nilsen , Norwegian singer
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj , American gymnast
1978 - Gunner McGrath , American guitarist (Much the Same )
1980 - Dallas Green , Canadian musician (Alexisonfire ,City and Colour )
1981 - Siarhei Rutenka , Belarusian handball player
1982 - Ariana Jollee , American pornographic actress
1984 - Per Mertesacker , German football player
1986 - Benoit Pouliot , Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Mark Fraser , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou , Australian soap actor
1992 - Bradley Downs , U.S. National Team Footballer
1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón , Spanish royal
Deaths 48 BC - Pompey the Great , consul of Rome (b. 106 BC )
1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany
1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496 )
1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz , Filipino saint
1642 - René Goupil , French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608 )
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 )
1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary , congressman , prohibitionist (b. 1814 )
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 (b. 1890 )
1981 - Bill Shankly , Scottish football manager (b. 1913 )
1982 - Monty Stratton , baseball player (b. 1912 )
1987 - Henry Ford II , president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917 )
1988 - Charles Addams , American cartoonist (b. 1912 )
1994 - Cheb Hasni , Algerian singer (b. 1968 )
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein , American artist (b. 1923 )
1998 - Jared High , victim of bullying and suicide
1998 - Tom Bradley , Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917 )
2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu , President of South Vietnam (b. 1923 )
2004 - Richard Sainct , French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970 )
2005 - Austin Leslie , American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934 )
2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen , Norwegian singer (b. 1976 )
2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique , Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926 )
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