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

Up to 1900

• 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.
• 1015 – St. Michael's Church in Hildesheim, present–day Lower Saxony, Germany, is consecrated; It is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
• 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for not taking part in the Crusades.
• 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.
• 1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua, Guatemala, destroying much of the city.
• 1760 – The French surrender at Fort Detroit to the British.
• 1774 – Publication of the Sorrows of Young Werther makes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe famous.
• 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. The Metropolitan Police force is founded.
• 1850 – A Roman Catholic hierarchy is re–established in England, Wales by Pope Pius IX.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England, United Kingdom.

1901 – 2000

• 1902 – Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
• 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral.
• 1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1913 – Mexican Revolution: The Battle of Torreon is fought.
• 1918 – Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
• 1923 – The British mandate for Palestine takes effect.
• 1932 – Chaco War: Last Day of the Battle of Boquerón.
• 1934 – The Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City is opened.
• 1938 – Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1939 – World War II: Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
• 1941 – Holocaust: The Babi Yar massacre begins.
• 1943 – World War II: 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 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia.
• 1954 – Convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts the UN General Assembly meeting with a series of angry outbursts.
• 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 – The University of East Anglia is founded in Norwich, England, United Kingdom.
• 1964 – Mafalda, a comic strip by the Argentine cartoonist Quino, first appears in newspapers.
• 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.
• 1977 – Muhammad Ali defends his heavyweight boxing world title against Earnie Shavers.
• 1988 – NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
• 1990 – Washington National Cathedral is completed.
• 1991 – A military coup occurs in Haiti.
• 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, President of Brazil, resigns.
• 1995 – PlayStation goes on sale in Europe.
• 1996 – Super Mario 64, a well–known Nintendo 64 video game, is released in the US.

From 2001

• 2002 – The 14th Asian Games begin in Busan, South Korea.
• 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2006 – A plane collision in Brazil kills 154 people on board a Boeing 737. The cargo plane manages an emergency landing.
• 2007 – Calder Hall power station at Sellafield, Cumbria, England, is demolished.
• 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.
• 2013 – At least 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram in Gujba, Nigeria.
• 2014 – Ashraf Ghani is sworn in as President of Afghanistan.
• 2019 – Big fights following the Afghani elections

Births

Up to 1800

• 106 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman politician and general (died 48 BC)
• 1240 – Margaret of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (died 1275)
• 1276 – King Christopher II of Denmark (died 1332)
• 1328 – Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II of England (died 1385)
• 1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (died 1421)
• 1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist, theologian, and scientist (died 1553)
• 1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594)
• 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (died 1616)
• 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1621)
• 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
• 1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter (died 1610)
• 1636 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1715)
• 1678 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd Duke of Noailles, French soldier (died 1766)
• 1691 – Richard Challoner, English bishop (died 1781)
• 1718 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (died 1783)
• 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British politician (died 1774)
• 1735 – James Keir, Scottish physician and chemist (died 1820)
• 1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (died 1805)
• 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal (died 1828)
• 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (died 1843)

1801 – 1900

• 1803 – Jacques Charles Francois Sturm, French mathematician (died 1855)
• 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (died 1865)
• 1810 – Hugh Allan, Scottish–Canadian businessman (died 1882)
• 1818 – Nathaniel B. Baker, 24th Governor of New Hampshire (died 1876)
• 1820 – Henri, Count of Chambord, claimant to the French throne (died 1883)
• 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (died 1882)
• 1844 – Miguel Angel Juarez Colman, President of Argentina (died 1909)
• 1853 – Princess Thyra of Denmark (died 1933)
• 1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician (died 1919)
• 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (died 1936)
• 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian politician (died 1934)
• 1866 – J. E. Casely Hayford, Ghanaian politician, lawyer and writer (died 1930)
• 1867 – Walther Rathenau, German politician (died 1922)
• 1880 – Liberato Pinto, Portuguese general and politician (died 1949)
• 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian–American economist, sociologist and philosopher (died 1973)
• 1895 – Roscoe Turner, American pilot (died 1970)
• 1899 – László Biró, Hungarian inventor (died 1985)
• 1899 – Billy Butlin, South African–British holiday entrepreneur (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Auguste van Pels, Dutch Holocaust victim (died 1945)
• 1900 – Michel Koliqi, Albanian cardinal (died 1997)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
• 1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet and activist (died 1981)
• 1902 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (died 1983)
• 1903 – Diana Vreeland, American fashion designer (died 1989)
• 1904 – Greer Garson, British actress (died 1996)
• 1904 – Egon Eiermann, German architect and designer (died 1970)
• 1907 – Gene Autry, American country music singer and actor (died 1998)
• 1908 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (died 1967)
• 1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (died 1982)
• 1911 – Charles Court, English–Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia (died 2007)
• 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (died 2007)
• 1913 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (died 1996)
• 1913 – Stanley Kramer, American movie director (died 2001)
• 1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (died 1988)
• 1915 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (died 1992)
• 1916 – Antonio Buero Vallejos, Spanish playwright (died 2000)
• 1919 – Margot Hielscher, German singer and actress (died 2017)
• 1919 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarussian chess player (died 2014)
• 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist (died 1992)
• 1920 – Vaclav Neumann, Czech conductor, violinist and violist (died 1995)
• 1921 – Franny Beecher, American guitarist (died 2014)
• 1922 – Esther Brand, South African athlete (died 2015)
• 1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (died 2015)
• 1923 – Stan Berenstain, American writer and illustrator (died 2005)
• 1924 – Marina Berti, Italian actress (died 2002)
• 1925 – Steve Forrest, American actor (died 2013)
• 1928 – Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (died 2001)
• 1928 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English politician (died 2016)
• 1930 – Colin Dexter, English writer (died 2017)
• 1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (died 2015)
• 1931 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist (died 2016)
• 1931 – Paul Oestreicher, German–English priest and theologian
• 1932 – Rainer Weiss, German–American physicist, 2017 Nobel laureate
• 1932 – Mehmood, Indian actor (died 2004)
• 1932 – Robert Benton, American director
• 1933 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (died 1986)
• 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American early rock and roll musician
• 1935 – Mylene Demongeot, French actress
• 1935 – Ingrid Noll, German writer
• 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
• 1937 – Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (died 2007)
• 1938 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2018)
• 1939 – Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, former First Minister of Wales (died 2017)
• 1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (died 2001)
• 1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (died 2000)
• 1940 – Nicola di Bari, Italian singer
• 1940 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Vice President of the Dominican Republic (died 2014)
• 1941 – Fred West, British serial killer (died 1995)
• 1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
• 1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
• 1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
• 1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (died 1999)
• 1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist (died 2019)
• 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
• 1943 – Wolfgang Overath, German footballer
• 1943 – Lech Walesa, former President of Poland
• 1945 – Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
• 1946 – Steve Dalachinsky, American poet (died 2019)
• 1946 – Patricia Hodge, English actress
• 1947 – S. H. Kapadia, Chief Justice of India (died 2016)
• 1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinet player
• 1948 – Mike Pinera, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian athlete
• 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
• 1951 – Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
• 1951 – Jutta Ditfurth, German author and activist
• 1952 – Gábor Csupo, Hungarian–born animator
• 1952 – Patrícia Gabancho, Argentine–Spanish writer (d. 2017)
• 1952 – Monika Zehrt, German athlete
• 1954 – Debbie Shapiro, American actress and singer
• 1955 – Ann Bancroft, American adventurer, polar explorer and writer
• 1955 – Gareth Davies, Welsh rugby player
• 1955 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor (died 2014)
• 1956 – Sebastian Coe, English athlete and politician
• 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer
• 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
• 1959 – Raffaele Riefoli, Italian singer
• 1961 – Julia Gillard, Welsh–Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedienne and radio host
• 1961 – Tom Sizemore, American actor
• 1962 – Janne Andersson, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1966 – Helsey Hawkins, American basketball player
• 1966 – Bujar Nishani, former President of Albania
• 1968 – Luke Goss, English actor and singer
• 1968 – Matt Goss, English singer
• 1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
• 1969 – Ivica Vastic, Austrian footballer
• 1970 – Emily Lloyd, English actress
• 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, English actor and comedian
• 1972 – Robert Webb, English comedian, actor and screenwriter (Peep Show)
• 1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor
• 1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer

From 1976

• 1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1977 – Heath Bell, American baseball player
• 1978 – Aleš Fućak, Croatian comedian
• 1979 – Gaitana, Ukrainian singer
• 1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
• 1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
• 1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Shane Smeltz, New Zealand footballer
• 1982 – Amy Williams, British skeleton bobsledder
• 1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
• 1984 – Rune Almenning Jarstein, Norwegian footballer
• 1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Matty McLean, New Zealand television broadcaster
• 1987 – Josh Farro, American bassist (Paramore)
• 1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
• 1989 – Yevhen Konoplyanka, Ukrainian footballer
• 1990 – Doug Brochu, American actor
• 1990 – Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
• 1990 – Lena Wermelt, German footballer
• 1993 – Carlos Salcedo, Mexican footballer
• 1994 – Halsey, American singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Andy Polo, Peruvian footballer
• 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín, Spanish royal
• 2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian Royal Family

Deaths

Up to 1950

• 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general (assassinated) (b. 106 BC)
• 722 – Leudwinus, Frankish bishop (b. 660)
• 855 – Lothair I, Emperor of the Romans (b. 795)
• 1364 – Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
• 1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
• 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
• 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)
• 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, American military officer (b. 1824)
• 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
• 1900 – Michael Denis, Austrian priest (b. 1729)
• 1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
• 1902 – William Topaz McGonagall, Scottish poet (b. 1825)
• 1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
• 1910 – Winslow Homer, American painter (b. 1836)
• 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1925 – Léon 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)

1951 – 2000

• 1952 – John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
• 1953 – Ernst Reuter, German politician (b. 1889)
• 1958 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Fred Tootell, American athlete (b. 1902)
• 1967 – Carson McCullers, American writer (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, American Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
• 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 1989 – August Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Gordon Douglas, American movie director (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
• 1996 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917)

From 2001

• 2001 – Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Christer Pettersson, Swedish murder suspect (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Louis-Albert Vachon, French–Canadian cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, (b. 1915)
• 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)
• 2010 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b. 1965)
• 2011 – Hella Haasse, Dutch writer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Carl Joachim Classen, German scholar (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Miguel Boyer, French–Spanish economist and politician (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Luis Nishizawa, Mexican painter (b. 1918)
• 2014 – George Shuba, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Phil Woods, American jazz musician, bandleader and composer (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Hellmuth Karasek, German literary critic and journalist (b. 1934)
• 2016 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (b. 1945)
• 2017 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (b. 1950)
• 2017 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian skater (b. 1935)
• 2017 – Magdalena Ribbing, Swedish etiquette expert, writer and journalist (b. 1940)
• 2017 – Dmitry Smolsky, Belarussian composer and teacher (b. 1937)
• 2018 – Alves Barbosa, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1931)
• 2018 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1935)
• 2019 – Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Busbee, American songwriter (b. 1976)
• 2019 – Ilkka Laitinen, Finnish military officer and politician (b. 1962)
• 2019 – Yuriy Meshkov, Russian politician (b. 1945)
• 2020 – Mac Davis, American country singer (b. 1942)
• 2020 – Helen Reddy, Australian–American singer (b. 1941)

Observances

• Christian Feast Day of Michaelmas and Feast day of the three Archangels, honouring St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael
• Inventors' Day in Argentina
• International Coffee Day
• Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)

Other websites

• BBC: On This Day