September 29

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances

Events

\n*61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars.\n*855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.\n*1364 - Battle of Auray - English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession\n*1567 - At a diner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.\n*1789 - United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.\n*1789 - First United States Congress adjourns.\n*1829 - London's reorganized police force goes on duty, later becomes known as Scotland Yard.\n*1864 - Battle of New Market Heights is fought.\n*1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.\n*1918 - Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.\n*1938 - Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.\n*1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.\n*1941 - Babi Yar massacre begins.\n*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.\n*1944 - Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia.\n*1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council.\n*1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.\n*1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.\n*2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar distances of Earth.

Births

\n*106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman statesman and general (d. 48 BC)\n*1328 - Joan of Kent (d. 1385)\n*1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author (d. 1616)\n*1725 - Robert Clive, general and statesman (d. 1774)\n*1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)\n*1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. [1865])\n*1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (d. 1954)\n* 1901 - Lanza del Vasto, philosopher, poet and non-violent activist (d. 1981)\n*1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)\n*1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman (d. 1998)\n*1908 - Eddie Tolan, US athlete (d. 1967)\n*1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director\n*1913 - Trevor Howard, actor (d. 1988)\n* 1913 - Stanley Kramer, film director (d. 2001)\n*1931 - Anita Ekberg, actress\n*1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, US musician\n*1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster\n*1939 - Larry Linville, actor (d. 2000)\n*1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician\n*1942 - Madeline Kahn, actress (d. 1999)\n*1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician\n*1948 - Bryant Gumbel, television personality\n*1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler\n*1956 - Sebastian Coe, British track and field champion\n*1961 - Rebecca DeMornay, actress\n*1963 - Dave Andreychuk, NHL player\n*1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus\n* 1964 - Tom Sizemore, actor\n*1966 - Jill Whelan, actress\n*1967 - Craig Bowie, musician/composer, computer scientist\n*1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player

Deaths

\n*48 BC - Pompey, the Great, Roman general (assassinated)\n*235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope\n*855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia\n*1364 - Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany, in the battle of Auray\n*1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)\n*1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States\n*1902 - Emile Zola, important writer\n*1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet\n*1908 - Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer\n*1913 - Rudolf Diesel, automobile pioneer\n*1913 - Trevor Howard, actor\n*1937 - Ray Ewry, American athlete\n*1942 - Esther Adolphine, sister of Sigmund Freud, in Theresienstadt concentration camp\n*1967 - Carson McCullers, author\n*1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor\n*1975 - Casey Stengel, US baseball player and coach\n*1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist\n*1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, artist\n*1998 - Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles, California\n*2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam

Holidays and Observances

\n*Michaelmas - Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel\n*One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar.

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