September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years ). There are 93 days remaining.
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 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 New Market Heights 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 Hammond 1962 - Alouette 1 , the first Canadian satalite is launched.1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council .1964 - Mafalda 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.
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 )1725 - Robert Clive , general and statesman (d. 1774 )1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805 )1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell , British novelist (d. 1865 )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 director1913 - Trevor Howard , actor (d. 1988 )1913 - Stanley Kramer , film director (d. 2001 ) 1931 - Anita Ekberg , actress1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis , US musician1938 - Wim Kok , Dutch politician and former prime minster1939 - Larry Linville , actor (d. 2000 )1941 - Edmund Stoiber , German politician1942 - 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 politician1948 - Bryant Gumbel , television personality1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977 )1951 - Maureen Caird , Australian hurdler 1952 - Max Sandlin , American politician1956 - Sebastian Coe , British track and field champion1961 - Rebecca DeMornay , actress1963 - Dave Andreychuk , NHL player1964 - Les Claypool , bassist of Primus1964 - Tom Sizemore , actor 1966 - Jill Whelan , actress1976 - Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian football player1978 - Kurt Nilsen , winner of World Idol and Norwegian Pop Idol contests1981 - Siarhei Rutenka , Handball player
Deaths 48 BC - Pompey, the Great , Roman general (assassinated)235 - Saint Pontianus , Pope855 - Lothar , Holy Roman Emperor1364 - Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany , in the battle of Auray 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496 )1804 - Michael Hillegas , first Treasurer of the United States1902 - Emile Zola , important writer1902 - William Topaz McGonagall , Irish poet 1908 - Machado de Assis , Brazilian writer1937 - Ray Ewry , American athlete1942 - Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud , in Theresienstadt concentration camp1967 - Carson McCullers , author1970 - Edward Everett Horton , actor1975 - Casey Stengel , US baseball player and coach1982 - Monty Stratton , Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912 )1988 - Charles Addams , cartoonist1997 - Roy Lichtenstein , artist1998 - Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles, California2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu , President of South Vietnam
Holidays and observances September 28 · September 30 · August 29 · October 29 · Historical anniversaries
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September 29th (4097 words)
of September , properly named the day of St. Michael and All Angels, is a great festival of the Church of Rome, and also observed as a feast by the Church of England . In England , it is one of the four quarterly terms, or quarter-days, on which rents are paid, and in that and other divisions of the United Kingdom, as well as perhaps in other countries, it is the day on which burgal magistracies and councils are re-elected. After service the whole body went into the vestry, where the old mayor seated himself in an elbow-chair at a table covered with fl cloth, in the middle of which lay the mace covered with rosemary and sprigs of bay.
September 29 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1645 words)
September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kyiv and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941 . September 28 · September 30 · August 29 · October 29 · Historical anniversaries
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