September 29

Famous People Who Were Born on September 29th.

Pompey the Great (Consul of Rome, 106 BC) 

Mackenzie Crook

Andrew "Dice" Clay

Bryant Gumbel

Lech Walesa

Madeline Kahn

Jerry Lee Lewis (American musician, b.1935)

Anita Ekberg (Swedish actress, b.1931)

Miguel De Cervantes (Spanish Author, b.1547)

Lizabeth Scott (American Actress, b.1922)

Stanley Kramer (American film director, b.1913)

Greer Garson (British Actress, b.1904)

Gene Autry (American actor, singer, and businessman, b.1907)

 Enrico Fermi (Italian physicist, Nobel laureate, b.1901)

Horatio Nelson (British admiral, b.1758)

Mark Farner

Larry Linville

Trevor Howard (English actor, b.1913)

Michelangelo Antonioni (Italian Film Director, 1912)

Margaret of England (Queen consort of Scotland, b.1240)

John of Artois, Count of Eu (French Soldier, b.1321)

Joan of Kent (Wife of Edward, the Black Prince, b.1328)

Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (Son of Henry IV of England, b.1388)

Miguel Servet (Spanish Humanist, b.1511)

William V, Duke of Bavaria (b.1548)

Adriaan Van Roomen (Flemish mathematician, b.1561)

Caravaggio (Italian artist, b.1571)

Thomas Tenison (Archbiship of Canterbury, b.1636)

Lord William Russell (English Politician, b.1639)

Antoine Coysevox (French sculptor, b.1640)

Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles (French soldier, b.1678)

Richard Challoner (English Catholic prelate, b.1691)

Francois Boucher (French painter, b.1703)

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (British general and statesman, b.1725)

Charlotte, Princess Royal (German Queen, b.1766)

Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (b.1786)

Jacques Charles Francois Sturm (French mathematician, b.1803)

Mercator Cooper (American sea captain, b.1803)

Henry Bennett (Amerian Politician, b.1808)

Elizabeth Gaskell (British novelist, b.1810)

Louis J. Weichmann (chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, b.1842)

Mikhail Skobelev (Russian general, b.1843)

Princess Thyra (daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, b.1853)

Hugo Haase (German politician and jurist, b.1863)

Alexandra Kitchin (British model for Lewis Carroll, b.1864)

Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish writer and philosopher, b.1864)

Charlie Llewellyn (South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911, b.1876)

Ludwig von Mises (Austrian economist, b.1881)

J.B. Rhine (American parapsychologist, b.1895)

Roscoe Turner (American aviator and racer, b.1895)

Herbert Agar (American journalist and historian, b.1897)

Trofim Lysenko (Russian biologist, b.1898)

Events

• 522 BC-Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumata, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
• 430 BC-Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
• 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.
• 1227-Frederick the 2nd, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory the 4th for his failure to go on crusade.
• 1364-Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
• 1567-The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
• 1567-At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
• 1650-Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters-the first historically documented dating service-in Threadneedle Street, London.
• 1717-An earthquake struck Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
• 1789-The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1789-The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
• 1829-The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1848-Battle of Pakozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pakozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
• 1850-The Roman 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.
• 1885-The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1907-The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1911-Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1916-John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
• 1918-World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
• 1941-World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29-30, 1941.
• 1943-World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
• 1949-The Communist Party of Cina writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• 1954-The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• 1954-Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at the Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the World Series.
• 1957-20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radoactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
• 1960-Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
• 1962-Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
• 1963-The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
• 1963-The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
• 1964-The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
• 1966-The Chevrolet Camaro, orginally named Panther, is introduced.
• 1971-Oman joins the Arab League.
• 1972-Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1975-WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
• 1979-Pope John Paul II became the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1982-1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals die in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1988-Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1990-Washington National Cathedral is finished.
• 1990-The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1991-Military coup in Haiti.
• 1992-Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
• 1995-The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers."
• 2001-The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2003-Hurrican Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
• 2004-The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004-The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
• 2005-US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
• 2006-US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were revealed.
• 2007-Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
• 2008-Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.