September 29......

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 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 - Pompey the Great is assassinated after landing in Egypt (records are unclear, may have occured September 28

● 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 dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne 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 establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

● 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.

● 1829 - London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, which became known as Scotland Yard, becomes the first official police department in the world, went on duty.

● 1850 - The 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.

● 1902 - Impresario David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater.

● 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

● 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.

● 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

● 1941 - The Babi Yar massacre begins where the Nazis kill thousands of Jews at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev.

● 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.

● 1952 - John Cobb killed attempting water-speed record on Loch Ness

● 1954 - New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in the opening game of the World Series. It is widely considered to be the greatest catch ever made.

● 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

● 1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1. The Giants moved to San Francisco for the next season.

● 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant.

● 1960 - Khrushchev anger erupts at UN; Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev thumps his desk and interrupts UN speeches to show disapproval.

● 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.

● 1963 - The second session of the Second Vatican Council opens in Rome.

● 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.

● 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).

● 1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church after the shortest papal reign in history..

● 1979 - Pope John Paul II began his first trip to the United States calling on the people of Ireland to end all violence and return to "the ways of peace".

● 1982 - Seven people in the Chicago area died after unwittingly taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.

● 1988 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster two and a half years previously.

● 1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled over her Rolls-Royce because the license plates had expired.

● 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.

● 1995 - The O.J. Simpson trial was sent to the jury.

● 1996 - Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 in North America.

● 1997 - Scientists confirm brain diseases link; British scientists say they have established a link between a human brain disease - vCJD - and one found in cows - BSE (Mad Cow Disease).

● 2000 - Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.

● 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.

● 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at 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, thereby halfway to winning the prize.

● 2005 - New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's (Valerie Plame) identity.

● 2005 - US Senate confirms John G. Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States and was immediately sworn in as the nation's 17th Chief Justice.

BIRTHS

● 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome, Roman statesman and general of the Roman Republic (d. 48 BC)

● 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, second son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)

● 1511 - Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)

● 1527 - John Leslie, Scottish bishop; advisor to Queen Mary (d. 1596)

● 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)

● 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)

● 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)

● 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, engraver and designer (d. 1770)

● 1725 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)

● 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)

● 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)

● 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)

● 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)

● 1848 - Caroline Yale, American educator of the deaf (d. 1933)

● 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)

● 1867 - Walther Rathenau, German statesman, industrialist and philosopher (d. 1922)

● 1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980).

● 1901 - Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born physicist who helped develop America's first atomic weapons, Nobel Prize laureate (1938) (d. 1954)

● 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)

● 1902 - Mexican president (1946-52)

● 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)

● 1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)

● 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)

● 1910 - Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)

● 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director

● 1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)

● 1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)

● 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1922 - Lizabeth Scott, American actress

● 1924 - Steve Forrest, American actor

● 1930 - Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels

● 1931 - Eddie Barth, Actor

● 1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress

● 1934 - Lance Gibbs, West Indian cricketer

● 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician

● 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician, leader of Forza Italia and former Prime Minister of Italy

● 1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

● 1939 - Tommy Boyce, songwriter, Boyce and Hart, The Monkees

● 1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic

● 1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)

● 1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer

● 1941 - Fred West, British serial killer

● 1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)

● 1942 - Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida (D)

● 1942 - Ian McShane, British actor ("Deadwood")

● 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist

● 1942 - Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist

● 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

● 1944 - Mike Post, American TV-film theme composer

● 1946 - Patricia Hodge, Actress

● 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality

● 1948 - Mark Farner, American guitarist Grand Funk Railroad, singer and songwriter.

● 1948 - Mike Pinera, Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)

● 1950 - Alvin Crow, Country 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 - Max Sandlin, American politician

● 1953 - Drake Hogestyn, Actor (''Days of Our Lives'')

● 1953 - Warren Cromartie, Major League Baseball player

● 1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete

● 1956 - Suzzy Roche, Singer (The Roches)

● 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian, actor and general all around asshole

● 1958 - John Payne, Rock singer (Asia)

● 1960 - Jennifer Rush, American singer

● 1961 - Stephanie Miller, American comedian and liberal talk show host

● 1962 - Roger Bart, American actor

● 1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player

● 1963 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)

● 1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress (''The Love Boat'')

● 1967 - Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede,The Tears)

● 1968 - Patrick Burns, television presenter

● 1969 - Erika Eleniak, actress and Playboy Playmate

● 1969 - Devante Swing, R&B singer (Jodeci)

● 1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress

● 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner, Actress

● 1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer

● 1971 - Rachel Cronin, Actress (''Ed'')

● 1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer.

● 1973 - Danick Dupelle, Country musician (Emerson Drive)

● 1974 - Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer.

● 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player

● 1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player

● 1976 - Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist

● 1977 - Debelah Morgan, R&B coloratura soprano.

● 1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer

● 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast

● 1978 - Gunner McGrath, American vocalist and guitarist (Much The Same)

● 1979 - Beau Zimmer, telejournalist

● 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player

● 1982 - Katie McNeill, Country singer (3 of Hearts)

● 1982 - Rob Smith Irish musician and singer/songwriter

● 1982 - Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director

● 1984 - Per Mertesacker, German football player

● 1986 - Benoit Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1989- Sebastian Elmaloglou, Australian soap actor

● 2002- Lila Grace Moss, daughter of british supermodel Kate Moss

DEATHS

● 48 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (b. 106 BC)

● 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany

● 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)

● 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint

● 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)

● 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)

● 1902 - Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)

● 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, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)

● 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)

● 1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)

● 1941 - The Babi Yar massacre begins where the Nazis kill thousands of Jews at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev.

● 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

● 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)

● 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)

● 1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)

● 1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (b. 1917)

● 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)

● 2005 - Austin Leslie, Considered by many the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1938)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints - Michaelmas - Feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael

● Also see September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

● England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar

● Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.

● French Republican Calendar - Amarante (Amaranth) Day, eighth day in the Month of Vendémiaire


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Additional facts taken from:

The BBC Take on the day

On this day in the New York Times