September 29 

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.

Events:

• 855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope
• 1364 - Battle of Auray[?] - English forces defeat French at Brittany
• 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. Later became known as Scotland Yard.
• 1864 - Battle of New Market Heights[?]
• 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.
• 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.
• 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
• 1944 - Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia
• 1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council
• 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster
• 2004 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar distances of Earth.

Births:

• 106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman statesman and general
• 1328 - Joan of Kent
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author (+ 1616)
• 1758 - Lord Horatio Nelson, British admiral (+ 1805)
• 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (+ 1954)
• 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (+ 1996)
• 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman (+ 1998)
• 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete
• 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director
• 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor (+ 1988)
• 1913 - Stanley Kramer[?], film director
• 1931 - Anita Ekberg[?], actress
• 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
• 1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster
• 1939 - Larry Linville[?], actor (+ 2000)
• 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
• 1942 - Madeline Kahn[?], actress (+ 1999)
• 1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician
• 1948 - Bryant Gumbel[?], television personality
• 1956 - Sebastian Coe[?], track and field champion
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore[?], actor
• 1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus

Deaths:

• 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
• 855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia
• 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
• 1804 - Michael Hillegas[?], first Treasurer of the United States
• 1902 - Emile Zola, important writer
• 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet
• 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, automobile pioneer
• 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor
• 1967 - Carson McCullers[?], author
• 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
• 1975 - Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach
• 1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
• 1997 - Roy Liechenstein[?], artist
• 1998 - Tom Bradley[?], former mayor of Los Angeles, California
• 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam

Holidays:

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