September 29
September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining. Events61 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 Succession1567 - 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 Hammond1962 - 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
September 28 ˇ September 30 ˇ August 29 ˇ October 29 ˇ Historical anniversaries
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