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This day in history: 29 September

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439 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 29 September.
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1941: During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Francesc de Paula Castelló Aleu

Christian feast day: Charles, Duke of Brittany

Christian feast day: Cyriacus the Anchorite

Christian feast day: Guillaume Courtet

Christian feast day: Hripsime

Christian feast day: Jean de Montmirail

Christian feast day: John of Dukla

Christian feast day: René Goupil

Christian feast day: September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. One of the four quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland). Called Michaelmas in some western liturgical traditions.

Christian feast day: Theodota of Philippi

Inventors' Day (Argentina)

Events

1941During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.

1972Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.

1918World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation.

1364During the Hundred Years' War, Anglo-Breton forces defeat the Franco-Breton army in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession.

1979Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.

1726J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael, the archangel.

1724J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 for the feast of archangel Michael, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas.

-61Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

1714The Cossacks of the Tsardom of Russia kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto during the Great Wrath.

2005John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.

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

2011The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.

1227Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy.

1971Oman joins the Arab League.

1829The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1789The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1567During the French War of Religion, Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade.

2006A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.

1981An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.

1911Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire, In this war , Italy gains Libya which ends Ottoman rule in North Africa .

1959A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 people.

1957The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.

1990Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.

1907The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.

1578Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.

1923The Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

1990The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

1920Ukrainian War of Independence: The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic agree to a truce with the Makhnovshchina.

2008The stock market crashes with the Dow Jones dropping a then record 778 points after the United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails during the beginning stages of the Great Recession.

1918World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.

1669Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki is crowned king following the 1669 Polish–Lithuanian royal election.

1940Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.

2016Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

1923The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon takes effect.

2004Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.

1992Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.

1918World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end the war.

1885The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

1975WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.

2007Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

Born on this day

1999Choi Ye-na, South Korean singer and dancer

2000Jaden McDaniels, American basketball player

1995Sasha Lane, American actress

1994Halsey, American singer

1994Nicholas Galitzine, English actor

1993Enxhi Seli-Zacharias, German politician

1991Souleymane Doukara, French footballer

1990Jordan Schroeder, American ice hockey player

1989Shyima Hall, Egyptian human rights activist

1988Kevin Durant, American basketball player

1987Josh Farro, American musician

1986Inika McPherson, American track and field athlete

1985Calvin Johnson, American football player

1985Michelle Payne, Australian jockey

1984Per Mertesacker, German footballer

1983Ryan Garry, English footballer and coach

1981Kelly McCreary, American actress

1981Suzanne Shaw, English actress and singer

1980Chrissy Metz, American actress

1980Dallas Green, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1980Zachary Levi, American actor and singer

1978Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1978Nathan West, American actor, musician, and singer

1978Neville Roach, English footballer

1977Heath Bell, American baseball player

1976Darren Byfield, English-Jamaican footballer

1976Kelvin Davis, English footballer

1975Stephanie Klein, American author

1974Alexis Cruz, American actor

1974Dedric Ward, American football wide receiver

1973Alfie Boe, English tenor and actor

1972Jörgen Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player

1972Robert Webb, English comedian, actor and writer

1971Joanna Brooks, American author and professor

1971Mackenzie Crook, English actor and screenwriter

1971Ray Buchanan, American football player

1971Theodore Shapiro, American composer

1970Emily Lloyd, English actress

1970Khushbu Sundar, Indian actress, producer, and politician

1970Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress

Died on this day

2025Alan McDonald, Scottish Church Minister (born 1951)

2025Patrick Murray, British actor (born 1956)

2024Ozzie Virgil Sr., Dominican baseball player and coach (born 1932)

2022Akissi Kouamé, Ivorian army officer (born 1955)

2022Kathleen Booth, British computer scientist and mathematician (born 1922)

2020Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer, actress, and activist (born 1941)

2020Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Emir (born 1929)

2019Martin Bernheimer, German-American music critic (born 1936)

2018Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (born 1934)

2017Tom Alter, Indian actor (born 1950)

2016Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (born 1945)

2015Hellmuth Karasek, Czech-German journalist, author, and critic (born 1934)

2015Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1932)

2015Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1931)

2014John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (born 1921)

2014Mary Cadogan, English author (born 1928)

2013Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (born 1921)

2013Marcella Hazan, Italian cooking writer (born 1924)

2013S. N. Goenka, Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (born 1924)

2012Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (born 1926)

2012Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (born 1947)

2012Neil Smith, Scottish geographer and academic (born 1954)

2011Sylvia Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1936)

2010Greg Giraldo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1965)

2010Tony Curtis, American actor (born 1925)

2008Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (born 1921)

2007Katsuko Saruhashi, Japanese geochemist (born 1920)

2007Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (born 1927)

2006Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian cardinal (born 1912)

2006Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1981)

Quote of the day

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”

Marcus Aurelius

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