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What Happened on September 29th This Day in History

Year Name
2019 Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
2016 Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
2013 Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
2011 The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
2009 The 8.1 Mw  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills over 189 and injures hundreds.
2008 The stock market crashes after the first United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails, leading to the Great Recession.
2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
2006 A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2005 John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.
2004 The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
1991 A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
1990 Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1990 The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.
1988 NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1981 An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.
1979 The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.
1975 WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
1972 Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1971 Oman joins the Arab League.
1959 A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 people.
1957 The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1941 During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
1940 Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
1932 Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia during the Chaco War.
1923 The Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1923 The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon takes effect.
1923 The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
1918 Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation in World War I.
1918 The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack in World War I.
1918 Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end World War I.
1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1907 The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1864 The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought in the American Civil War.
1864 The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
1855 The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration.[14]
1850 The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
1848 The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1789 The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1717 An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.
1714 The Cossacks of the Russian Empire kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto during the Great Hatred.
1578 Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
1567 During the French War of Religion, Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade.
1364 During the Hundred Years' War, Anglo-Breton forces defeat the Franco-Breton army in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession.
1267 The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades during the Investiture Controversy.
1011 Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
61 Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
Famous People Born on September 29

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Year Name
1803 Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1850)
1910 Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
1957 Chris Broad, English cricketer and referee
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2022)
1943 Juan Flores, American academic and professor (d. 2014)
1952 Max Sandlin, American lawyer, judge, and politician
1991 Nathan Modest, English footballer
1907 Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman (d. 1998)
1951 Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian educator and politician, 6th President of Emilia-Romagna
1949 Douglas Frantz, American investigative journalist and author
Famous People Deaths On September 29

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Date Name
1887 Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon and academic (b. 1810)
1913 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858)
1918 Lawrence Weathers, Australian soldier (b. 1890).
1902 William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
1982 A. L. Lloyd, English folk singer (b. 1908)
2007 Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
1382 Izz al-Din ibn Rukn al-Din Mahmud, malik of Sistan
1908 Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
2010 Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
1967 Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (b. 1917)