September 29
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September 29 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining after September 29 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 106 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman politician and general (died 48 BC)
- 1276 – King Christopher II of Denmark (died 1332)
- 1328 – Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II of England (died 1385)
- 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594)
- 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (died 1616)
- 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (died 1610)
- 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British politician (died 1774)
- 1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)
- 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal (died 1828)
- 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (died 1843)
- 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (died 1865)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (died 2007)
- 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American film director (died 2001)
- 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist (died 1992)
- 1930 – Colin Dexter, British writer
- 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
- 1931 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist
- 1933 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (died 1986)
- 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, early rock and roll musician
- 1935 – Ingrid Noll, German writer
- 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
- 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician
- 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician
- 1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
- 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- 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
- 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
- 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
- 1956 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete and politician
- 1961 – Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1968 – Luke Goss, British actor
- 1970 – Emily Lloyd, British actress
- 1972 – Robert Webb, British comedian
- 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
- 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian 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)
- 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
- 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian Royal Family
[change] Deaths
- 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general (assassinated) (b. 106 BC)
- 1364 – Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
- 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1804 – Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- 1833 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. in the 1700s)
- 1902 – Emile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1902 – William Topaz McGonagall, Scottish poet (b. 1825)
- 1908 – 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 author (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, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
- 1988 – Charles Addams, cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 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)
- 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)
[change] 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 are kept for Julius Caesar (some sources give September 28).
- 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 dinner, 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 United States Congress adjourns.
- 1829 – London's reorganized police force goes on duty, and later becomes known as Scotland Yard.
- 1864 – 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.
- 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 – The 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) is 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 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.
- 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.
- 2006 – A plane collision in Brazil kills 154 people on board a Boeing 737. The cargo plane manages an emergency landing.
- 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.
[change] Observances
- Christian Feast Day of Michaelmas
- Inventors' Day in Argentina
[change] Other websites
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