September 29

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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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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 Themistokles, 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.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX, for his failure to go on crusade.
1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
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.
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, also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
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 - First billionaire. John D. Rockefeller proclaimed.
1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941.
1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.
1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1954 - Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in game one of the World Series.
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, disorders 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.
1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
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.
1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
1982 - Tylenol Crisis of 1982 began when the first of seven individuals died in metropolitan Chicago.
1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.

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

1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished.
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), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize.
2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.