September 29
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September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.
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[change] Births
- 106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman politician and general (died 48 BC)
- 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (died 1843)
- 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
- 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, early rock and roll musician
- 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
- 1984 - Per Mertesacker, German fooballer
[change] 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, Scottish 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
[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 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 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, later becomes known as Scotland Yard.
- 1864 - Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
- 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
- 1907 - 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 - 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 discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond
- 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite 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.
- 1990 - Washington National Cathedral is completed.
- 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.
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