What happened on September 29? There are more than 293 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 29
September 29 is the 273rd day of the year 2024. There are 93 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 39th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Forest Lake, Minnesota 55025 sunrise will occur at 07:07 AM and sunset will occur at 06:56 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 122 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 29
- 61 BCPompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
- 480 BCBattle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 522 BCDarius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 1227Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
- 1364Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
- 1567At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
- 1650Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
- 1717An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city’s architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
- 1789The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
- 1789The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 1829The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
- 1848Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
- 1850The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
- 1864American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
- 1885The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- 1907The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 1911Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
- 1932Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
- 1938Munich Agreement: Germany was given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
- 1941World War II: Holocaust in Kyiv, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babyn Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
- 1943World 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.
- 1949The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
- 1951The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
- 1954The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 195720 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
- 1960Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1962Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
- 1963The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- 1964The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- 1966The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- 1971Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1972Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
- 1975WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- 1979Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
- 1982The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
- 1988Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 1990Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
- 1990The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 1991Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
- 1992Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 1995The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
- 2001The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
- 2004The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
- 2004The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2006Gol 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.
- 2007Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
- 2008Following 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.
- 2009An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
Who Were Born On September 29?
- 106 BCPompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
- 1240Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
- 1321John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
- 1328Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
- 1388Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
- 1511Miguel Servet aka Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
- 1518Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
- 1547Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
- 1548William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
- 1561Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
- 1571Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
- 1636Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
- 1639William Russell, Lord Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
- 1640Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
- 1678Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
- 1691Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
- 1703François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
- 1725Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
- 1758Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
- 1766Charlotte, Princess Royal, German queen (d. 1828)
- 1786Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
- 1803Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
- 1803Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
- 1808Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
- 1810Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
- 1842Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
- 1843Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
- 1853Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
- 1863Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
- 1864Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
- 1864Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1876Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911 (d. 1964)
- 1881Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)
- 1895Clarence Ashley, American clawhammer banjo player and singer (d. 1967)
- 1895J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
- 1895Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
- 1897Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
- 1898Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
- 1899László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
- 1901Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
- 1901Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
- 1902Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
- 1904Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
- 1907Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
- 1907George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
- 1908Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
- 1910Bill Boyd (musician), American Western style singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
- 1910Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1912Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
- 1913Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
- 1913Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1915Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
- 1915Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
- 1920Vaclav Neumann, Czech conductor, violinist and viola player (d. 1995)
- 1922Lizabeth Scott, American actress
- 1923Stan Berenstain, American children’s author (d. 2005)
- 1924Steve Forrest, American actor
- 1927Pete McCloskey, American politician
- 1930Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
- 1931Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
- 1931James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1932Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
- 1932Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
- 1934Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
- 1934Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, psychology professor
- 1934Skandor Akbar, American professional wrestler and manager (d. 2010)
- 1934Stuart M. Kaminsky, American mystery writer (d. 2009)
- 1935Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
- 1935Mylène Demongeot, French actress
- 1936Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
- 1938Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002
- 1939Dan Crary, American bluegrass guitarist
- 1939Fikret Abdić, Bosnian politician and businessman
- 1939Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
- 1939Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1939Molly Haskell, American film critic
- 1939Rhodri Morgan, 2nd First Minister of Wales
- 1939Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1940Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
- 1941Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
- 1942Bill Nelson, American politician
- 1942Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
- 1942Ian McShane, British actor
- 1942Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
- 1942Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1942Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1943Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
- 1943Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1943Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran
- 1944Mike Post, American composer
- 1945Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
- 1946Ian Wallace, English rock drummer (d. 2007)
- 1946Patricia Hodge, English actress
- 1947Gary Wetzel, American Vietnam War Veteran & Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
- 1947Martin Ferrero, American actor
- 1948Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
- 1948Mark Farner, American guitarist (Grand Funk)
- 1948Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
- 1949George Dalaras, Greek singer
- 1950Ken Macha, American baseball player and manager
- 1951Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
- 1951Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
- 1951Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
- 1951Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
- 1952Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
- 1952Max Sandlin, American politician
- 1952Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 59th Yokozuna
- 1953Drake Hogestyn, American actor
- 1953Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director (d. 1997)
- 1953Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
- 1954Uwe Jahn, German football coach
- 1955Benoît Ferreux, French actor
- 1955Ken Weatherwax, American actor from The Addams Family (TV series)
- 1956Sebastian Coe, British athlete
- 1956Suzzy Roche, American singer, youngest member of The Roches
- 1957Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
- 1957Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee
- 1957Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sports presenter
- 1957Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
- 1960Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
- 1960David Sammartino, American professional wrestler
- 1960John Paxson, American basketball player
- 1960Julian Armour, Canadian cellist and artistic director
- 1961Julia Gillard, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia
- 1961Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
- 1962Roger Bart, American actor
- 1963Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
- 1964Brad Lohaus, American basketball player
- 1966Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player
- 1966Jill Whelan, American actress
- 1967Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
- 1968Alex Skolnick, American thrash metal and jazz guitarist
- 1968Luke Goss, English actor
- 1968Patrick Burns, American television presenter
- 1968Samir Soni, Indian film actor
- 1969Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
- 1969Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
- 1969DeVante Swing, American singer, writer, and record producer
- 1969Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
- 1970AMG (rapper), American Rap Musician
- 1970Emily Lloyd, British actress
- 1970Joe Doucet, American Designer, Inventor, Artist
- 1970Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
- 1970Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
- 1970Russell Peters, Canadian stand-up comedian
- 1970Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1971Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
- 1971Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
- 1972Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
- 1972Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
- 1972Togi Makabe, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1973Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
- 1973Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
- 1973Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
- 1974Alexis Cruz, American actor
- 1974Brian Ash, American filmmaker
- 1975Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
- 1976Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1976Darren Byfield, English footballer
- 1976Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
- 1977Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
- 1977Eric Barton, American football player
- 1977Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
- 1977Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
- 1978Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
- 1978Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
- 1979Artika Sari Devi, Indonesian beauty queen, Puteri Indonesia 2004
- 1979Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
- 1979Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
- 1980Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire, City and Colour)
- 1980Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
- 1980Zachary Levi, American actor
- 1981Aris Galanopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1981Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian/Spanish handball player
- 1982Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
- 1982Matt Giteau, Australian rugby union player
- 1983Lisette Oropesa, American soprano
- 1984Isha Sharvani, Indian dancer and actress
- 1984Per Mertesacker, German footballer
- 1986Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986Matt Lashoff, American ice hockey player
- 1987David Del Rio, American actor
- 1988Justin Nozuka, American/Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1988Kevin Durant, American basketball player
- 1989Andrea Poli, Italian footballer
- 1989Theo Adams, British performance artist
- 1990Doug Brochu, American actor
- 1990Lena Wermelt, German footballer
- 1999Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
- 2008Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family
Who Died On September 29?
- 1304John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier (b. 1231)
- 1364Charles, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
- 1560King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- 1637Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
- 1642René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
- 1642William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (b. 1561)
- 1703Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
- 1800Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
- 1804Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- 1833King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
- 1887Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
- 1889Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
- 1900Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
- 1902Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1902William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
- 1908Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
- 1913Rudolf Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
- 1925Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
- 1927Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
- 1927Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
- 1930Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
- 1937Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
- 1951Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
- 1952John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
- 1967Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
- 1970Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
- 1973W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- 1975Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
- 1976Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)
- 1981Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
- 1982Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
- 1987Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
- 1988Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
- 1989August “Gussie” Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
- 1989Georges Ulmer, French composer, lyricist and singer (b. 1919)
- 1992Jean Aurenche, French film screenwriter (b. 1903)
- 1994Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
- 1996Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)
- 1997Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
- 1998Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
- 1999Jean-Louis Millette, Canadian actor and writer (b. 1935)
- 2001Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
- 2002Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
- 2004Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
- 2005Austin Leslie, American chef, the “Godfather of Fried Chicken” (b. 1934)
- 2006Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
- 2006Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
- 2006Louis-Albert Vachon, French Canadian cardinal archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
- 2006Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
- 2006Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
- 2007Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
- 2009Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
- 2009Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1926 or 1932)
- 2010Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b.1965)
- 2010Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
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