September 29
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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 until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 106 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman politician and general (died 48 BC)
- 1240 – Margaret of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (died 1275)
- 1276 – King Christopher II of Denmark (died 1332)
- 1328 – Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II of England (died 1385)
- 1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (died 1421)
- 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist, theologian, and scientist (died 1553)
- 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594)
- 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (died 1616)
- 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1621)
- 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
- 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (died 1610)
- 1636 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
- 1678 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (died 1766)
- 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (died 1783)
- 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British politician (died 1774)
- 1735 – James Keir, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1820)
- 1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)
- 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal (died 1828)
- 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (died 1843)
- 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (died 1865)
- 1810 – Hugh Allan, Scottish-Canadian businessman (died 1882)
- 1844 – Miguel Angel Juarez Colman, President of Argentina (died 1909)
- 1853 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (died 1933)
- 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician (died 1919)
- 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (died 1936)
- 1867 – Walther Rathenau, German politician (died 1922)
- 1880 – Liberato Pinto, Portuguese general and politician (died 1949)
- 1899 – Laszlo Biro, Hungarian inventor (died 1985)
- 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
- 1902 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (died 1983)
- 1904 – Greer Garson, British actress (died 1996)
- 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (died 1967)
- 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (died 2007)
- 1913 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (died 1996)
- 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American movie director (died 2001)
- 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (died 1988)
- 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (died 1992)
- 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist (died 1992)
- 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American writer and illustrator (died 2005)
- 1930 – Colin Dexter, British writer
- 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
- 1931 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist
- 1932 – Mehmood, Indian actor (died 2004)
- 1933 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (died 1986)
- 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American early rock and roll musician
- 1935 – Ingrid Noll, German writer
- 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
- 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, former First Minister of Wales
- 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (died 2001)
- 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (died 2000)
- 1940 – Nicola di Bari, Italian singer
- 1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
- 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
- 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (died 1999)
- 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
- 1943 – Wolfgang Overath, German footballer
- 1943 – Lech Walesa, former President of Poland
- 1945 – Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
- 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
- 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian athlete
- 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
- 1952 – Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
- 1956 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete and politician
- 1959 – Raffaele Riefoli, Italian singer
- 1961 – Julia Gillard, British-Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1968 – Luke Goss, British actor
- 1969 – Ivica Vastic, Austrian footballer
- 1970 – Emily Lloyd, British actress
- 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
- 1972 – Robert Webb, British comedian, actor and screenwriter (Peep Show)
- 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
- 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
- 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
- 1981 – Shane Smeltz, New Zealand footballer
- 1982 – Amy Williams, British skeleton bobsledder
- 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
- 1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1987 – Josh Farro, American bassist (Paramore)
- 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
- 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
- 1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer
- 1999 – Juan Valentin Urdangarin, Spanish royal
- 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian Royal Family
Deaths [change]
- 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general (assassinated) (b. 106 BC)
- 855 – Lothair I, Emperor of the Romans (b. 795)
- 1364 – Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
- 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
- 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. in the 1700s)
- 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American military officer (b. 1824)
- 1902 – Emile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1902 – William Topaz McGonagall, Scottish poet (b. 1825)
- 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
- 1910 – Winslow Homer, American painter (b. 1836)
- 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor and engineer (b. 1858)
- 1925 – Leon Bourgeois, French politician (b. 1851)
- 1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
- 1930 – Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
- 1937 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
- 1952 – John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
- 1953 – Ernst Reuter, German politician (b. 1889)
- 1958 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1893)
- 1967 – Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, actor (b. 1886)
- 1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- 1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach (b. 1890)
- 1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
- 1982 – Monty Stratton, American Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
- 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 1989 – August Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer (b. 1899)
- 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American movie director (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Christer Pettersson, Swedish murder suspect (b. 1947)
- 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, French-Canadian cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Georges Charpak, Polish-born physicist (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b. 1965)
- 2011 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter (b. 1929)
Events [change]
- 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 are kept for Julius Caesar (some sources give September 28).
- AD 855 – Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.
- 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for not taking part in the Crusades.
- 1364 – Battle of Auray – English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
- 1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
- 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua, Guatemala, destroying much of the city.
- 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, and later becomes known as Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan Police force is founded.
- 1850 – A Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England, Wales by Pope Pius IX.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1902 – Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
- 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral.
- 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 – Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
- 1923 – The British mandate for Palestine takes effect.
- 1938 – Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 – World War II: Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
- 1941 – Holocaust: The Babi Yar massacre begins.
- 1943 – World War II: 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 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia.
- 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China, which is declared by Mao Zedong two days later, on October 1.
- 1954 – Convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly meeting with a series of angry outbursts.
- 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 discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond
- 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
- 1964 – Mafalda, a comic strip by the Argentine cartoonist Quino, first appears 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.
- 1990 – Washington National Cathedral is completed.
- 1991 – A military coup occurs in Haiti.
- 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, President of Brazil, resigns.
- 1996 – Super Mario 64, a well-known Nintendo 64 video game, is released in the US.
- 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2006 – A plane collision in Brazil kills 154 people on board a Boeing 737. The cargo plane manages an emergency landing.
- 2007 – Calder Hall power station at Sellafield, Cumbria, England, is demolished.
- 2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average index falls by 777.68 points in a single day.
- 2009 – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake causes a tsunami near Samoa and American Samoa, killing at least 189 people, including 9 in Tonga.
Observances [change]
- Christian Feast Day of Michaelmas
- Inventors' Day in Argentina
Other websites [change]
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