September 29

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.

Events

• 522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
• 480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
• 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.
• 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
• 1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
• 1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
• 1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters – the first historically documented dating service – in Threadneedle Street, London.
• 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
• 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, later also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
• 1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1916 – John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
• 1918 – World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
• 1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
• 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
• 1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
• 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
• 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
• 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
• 1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
• 1963 – The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
• 1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
• 1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
• 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.
• 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1982 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

The mission logo of STS-26, flown by OV-103.

• 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
• 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1991 – Military coup in Haiti.
• 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
• 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
• 2001 – The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
• 2005 – US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
• 2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages are revealed.
• 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
• 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
• 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
• 2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami .

Births

• 106 BC – Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
• 1240 – Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
• 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 aka Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
• 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
• 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)
• 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal, German queen (d. 1828)
• 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)
• 1808 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
• 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)
• 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
• 1864 – Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
• 1876 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911 (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)
• 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, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
• 1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
• 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel 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, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
• 1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
• 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
• 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
• 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 laureate
• 1932 – Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
• 1932 – Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, psychology professor
• 1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
• 1934 – Skandor Akbar, American professional wrestler and manager
• 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
• 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
• 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002
• 1939 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter
• 1939 – Molly Haskell, American film critic
• 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, 2nd First Minister of Wales
• 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
• 1941 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
• 1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
• 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
• 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, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 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 – Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
• 1952 – Max Sandlin, American politician
• 1952 – Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 59^th Yokozuna
• 1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
• 1953 – Drake Hogestyn, American actor
• 1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director (d. 1997)
• 1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor
• 1955 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor from The Addams Family (TV series)
• 1956 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete
• 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
• 1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
• 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee
• 1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sports presenter
• 1960 – Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
• 1960 – John Paxson, American basketball player
• 1960 – David Sammartino, American professional wrestler
• 1961 – Julia Gillard, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia
• 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
• 1962 – Roger Bart, American actor
• 1962 – Al Pitrelli, American musician and guitarist
• 1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
• 1964 – Brad Lohaus, American basketball player
• 1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player
• 1966 – Jill Whelan, American actress
• 1967 – Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
• 1968 – Patrick Burns, American television presenter
• 1968 – Luke Goss, English actor
• 1968 – Samir Soni, Indian film actor
• 1968 – Alex Skolnick, American thrash metal and jazz guitarist
• 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
• 1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
• 1969 – Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
• 1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
• 1970 – Emily Lloyd, British actress
• 1970 – AMG (rapper), American Rap Musician
• 1970 – Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
• 1970 – Russell Peters, Canadian stand-up comedian
• 1971 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
• 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
• 1972 – Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
• 1972 – Togi Makabe, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1972 – Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
• 1973 – Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
• 1973 – Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
• 1974 – Brian Ash, American filmmaker
• 1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor
• 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
• 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1976 – Darren Byfield, English footballer
• 1976 – Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
• 1977 – Eric Barton, American football player
• 1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
• 1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
• 1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
• 1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
• 1978 – Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
• 1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
• 1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
• 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire, City and Colour)
• 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
• 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
• 1981 – Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian/Spanish handball player
• 1982 – Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
• 1982 – Matt Giteau, Australian rugby union player
• 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
• 1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – David Del Rio, American actor
• 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
• 1988 – Justin Nozuka, American/Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Theo Adams, British performance artist
• 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
• 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
• 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family

Deaths

• 1364 – Charles, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
• 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
• 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)
• 1913 – Rudolph Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
• 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, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
• 1930 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1937 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
• 1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
• 1952 – John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
• 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)
• 1976 – Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)
• 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)
• 1989 – Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
• 1996 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
• 2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, French Canadian cardinal archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1926 or 1932)
• 2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Michaelmas, feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael.
  • September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Inventor's Day (Argentina)
• One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada