On this day in History - Sep. 29

• 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
• 480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
• 106 BC - Pompey was born (d. 48 BC). Roman statesman and general.
• 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.
• 48 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.
• 48 BC - Pompey, the Great dies assassinated (b. 106 BC). Roman general.
• 0440 - Leo I becomes Pope.
• 0855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.
• 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
• 1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.
• 1240 - Margaret of England was born (d. 1275). Queen consort of Scotland.
• 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu was born (d. 1387). French soldier.
• 1328 - Joan of Kent was born (d. 1385).
• 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
• 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany dies.
• 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1421). Second son of Henry IV of England.
• 1402 - Nasce Fernando de Portugal, o Infante Santo († 1443).
• 1511 - Miguel Servet was born († 1553). Spanish humanist.
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes was born († 1616). Spanish author.
• 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria was born (d. 1626).
• 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden dies (b. 1496).
• 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen was born (d. 1615). Flemish mathematician.
• 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
• 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
• 1571 - Caravaggio was born (d. 1610). Italian artist.
• 1636 - Thomas Tenison was born (d. 1715). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz dies. Filipino saint.
• 1639 - Lord William Russell was born (d. 1683). English politician.
• 1640 - Antoine Coysevox was born (d. 1720). French sculptor.
• 1642 - René Goupil dies (b. 1608). French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs.
• 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.
• 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles was born (d. 1766). French soldier.
• 1691 - Richard Challoner was born (d. 1781). English Catholic prelate.
• 1703 - François Boucher was born (d. 1770). French painter.
• 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond dies (b. 1610). French soldier.
• 1717 – An earthquake struck Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
• 1725 - Robert Clive was born (d. 1774). British general and statesman.
• 1758 - Horatio Nelson was born (d. 1805). British admiral.
• 1766 - Charlotte, Princess Royal was born (d. 1828). German queen.
• 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria was born (d. 1843). First president of Mexico.
• 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
• 1800 - Michael Denis dies (b. 1729). Austrian poet.
• 1801 - Tratado de paz entre Portugal e a República francesa, assinado em Madrid, em consequência da «Guerra das Laranjas», pelo qual Portugal se obriga a fechar os portos aos britânicos.
• 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm was born (d. 1850). French mathematician.
• 1803 - Mercator Cooper was born (d. 1872). American sea captain.
• 1804 - Michael Hillegas dies (b. 1728). First Treasurer of the United States.
• 1808 - Henry Bennett was born (d. 1868). American politician.
• 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell was born (d. 1865). British novelist.
• 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1833 - King Fernando VII of Spain dies (b. 1784).
• 1842 - Louis J. Weichmann was born (d. 1902). Chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
• 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev was born (d. 1882). Russian general.
• 1844 - Miguel Juárez Celman was born. Argentine politician.
• 1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
• 1849 - Dom Francisco do Rego Maia was born († 1928). Brazilian bishop.
• 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
• 1853 - Princess Thyra was born (d. 1933). Daughter of Christian IX of Denmark.
• 1863 - Hugo Haase was born (d. 1919). German politician and jurist.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1864 - Alexandra Kitchin was born (d. 1925). British model for Lewis Carroll.
• 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno was born (d. 1936). Spanish writer and philosopher.
• 1876 - Charlie Llewellyn was born (d. 1964). South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911. 1881 - Ludwig von Mises was born († 1973). Austrian economist.
• 1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck dies (b. 1810). German surgeon.
• 1889 - Louis Faidherbe dies (b. 1818). French general.
• 1890 - Maria Matos was born. Portuguese actress and theatre entrepreneur.
• 1895 - J.B. Rhine was born (d. 1980). American parapsychologist.
• 1895 - Roscoe Turner was born (d. 1970). American aviator and racer.
• 1897 - Herbert Agar was born (d. 1980). American journalist and historian.
• 1898 - Trofim Lysenko was born (d. 1976). Stalinist biologist.
• 1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés was born (d. 1983). President of Mexico.
• 1901 - Enrico Fermi was born (d. 1954). Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Phisics laureate, in 1938.
• 1901 - Lanza del Vasto was born (d. 1981). Italian philosopher, poet, and activist.
• 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
• 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall dies (b. 1825). Scots/Irish poet.
• 1902 - Émile Zola dies (b. 3 Apr 1840). French writer.
• 1904 - Greer Garson was born (d. 1996). British actress.
• 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1907 - Gene Autry was born (d. 1998). American actor and businessman.
• 1907 - George W. Jenkins was born (d. 1996). American businessman.
• 1908 - Eddie Tolan was born (d. 1967). American athlete.
• 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis dies (b. 21 Jun 1839). Brazilian writer.
• 1910 - Virginia Bruce was born (d. 1982). American actress.
• 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni was born. Italian film director.
• 1913 - Trevor Howard was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1913 - Stanley Kramer was born (d. 2001). American film director.
• 1915 - Brenda Marshall was born (d. 1992). American film actress.
• 1915 - Vincent DeDomenico was born (d. 2007). American entrepreneur.
• 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
• 1916 - Antonio Buero Vallejo was born. Spanish dramatist. 1918 - World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
• 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell was born. English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1922 - Lizabeth Scott was born. American actress.
• 1923 - Stan Berenstain was born (d. 2005). American children's author.
• 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
• 1924 - Steve Forrest was born. American actor.
• 1925 - Léon Bourgeois dies. French politician. Nobel Prize for Peace laureate in 1920.
• 1927 - Willem Einthoven dies (b. 1860). Dutch physician, Nobel laureate.
• 1927 - Nascia Adhemar Ferreira da Silva († 2001). Bicampeão olímpico brasileiro no triplo salto
• 1930 - Colin Dexter was born. British author of Inspector Morse novels.
• 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin dies (b. 1844). Russian painter.
• 1931 - Anita Ekberg was born. Swedish actress.
• 1931 - James Watson Cronin was born. American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1980.
• 1932 - Robert Benton was born. American screenwriter and director.
• 1933 - Samora Machel was († 1986). First President of Mozambique.
• 1934 - Lance Gibbs was born. West Indian cricketer. 
• 1934 - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi was born. Psychology professor
• 1934 – Skandor Akbar was born. American professional wrestler and manager.
• 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis was born. American musician.
• 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi was born. Italian politician, leader of Forza Italia and former Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1937 - Ray Ewry dies (b. 1873). American athlete.
• 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1938 - Wim Kok was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 1939 – Jim Baxter was born (d. 2001). Scottish footballer.
• 1939 - Larry Linville was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1939 - Molly Haskell was born. American film critic.
• 1939 – Rhodri Morgan was born. 2nd First Minister for Wales.
• 1939 - Tommy Boyce was born. American songwriter, Boyce and Hart, The Monkees.
• 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
• 1940 - Nicola Di Bari was born. Italian singer.
• 1941 - 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. / 33.771 Judeus são mortos durante o massacre de Babi Yar, perto de Kiev, na Ucrânia, no começo da invasão alemã da União Soviética.
• 1941 - Fred West was born. British serial killer.
• 1942 - Bill Nelson was born. U.S. Senator from Florida.
• 1942 - Felice Gimondi was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1942 - Ian McShane was born. British actor.
• 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty was born. French jazz violinist.
• 1942 - Madeline Kahn was born (d. 1999). American actress.
• 1942 - Steve Tesich was born (d. 1996). Serbian screenwriter.
• 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice. aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
• 1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts was born. American genealogist.
• 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland was born. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1944 - Mike Post was born. American composer.
• 1943 - Mohammad Khatami was born. Former President of Iran.
• 1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas was born. Greek composer.
• 1946 - Celso Pitta was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1947 - Martin Ferrero was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Bryant Gumbel was born. American television personality.
• 1948 - Mark Farner was born. American guitarist Grand Funk.
• 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann was born. German jazz clarinetist.
• 1949 - The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• 1949 - George Dalaras was born. Greek singer.
• 1951 - Michelle Bachelet was born. President of Chile.
• 1951 - Andrés Caicedo was born (d. 1977). Colombian writer.
• 1951 - Maureen Caird was born. Australian hurdler.
• 1951 – Michelle Bachelet was born. President of Chile.
• 1951 - Mike Enriquez was born. Philippine broadcaster.
• 1952 – Gabor Csupo was born. Hungarian-born animator.
• 1952 - Max Sandlin was born. American politician.
• 1953 - Drake Hogestyn was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon was born (d. 1977). Quebec film director.
• 1953 - Warren Cromartie was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 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.
• 1955 - Benoît Ferreux was born. French actor.
• 1955 - Nasce, em Repeses, concelho de Viseu, Francisco José Ferreira Rebelo Fernandes. Economista e fiscalista português.
• 1956 - Sebastian Coe was born. British athlete.
• 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant.
• 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1957 – Chris Broad was born. English cricketer and match referee.
• 1957 - Luís Miguel Nava was born in Viseu (d. 10 May 1995). Portuguese writer.
• 1957 – Mark Nicholas was born. English cricketer and sports presenter.
• 1957 - Sokratis Malamas was born. Greek singer and composer.
• 1958 - First cinema exhibitions in Cinemateca Portuguesa
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• 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
• 1960 – Alan McGee was born. British music industry mogul and musician.
• 1960 – David Sammartino was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1960 – John Paxson was born. American Basketball Player and GM.
• 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Stephanie Miller was born. American comedian and liberal talk show host.
• 1961 - The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Sheldon's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond.
• 1961 – Julia Gillard was born. Australian politician.
• 1961 – Stephanie Miller was born. American comedian and talk radio host.
• 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
• 1962 – Al Pitrelli was born. American musician and guitarist.
• 1962 - Roger Bart was born. American actor.
• 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens. 1963 – The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
• 1963 - Dave Andreychuk was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1963 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
• 1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
• 1964 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
• 1965 - Rino Levi dies (b. 1901). Brazilian architect.
• 1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
• 1966 – Hersey Hawkins was born. American basketball player.
• 1966 - Jill Whelan was born. American actress.
• 1967 - The first episode of Captain Scarlet is aired on Television.
• 1967 - Brett Anderson was born. British musician/singer (Suede,The Tears).
• 1967 - Carson McCullers dies (b. 1917). American author.
• 1968 – Alex Skolnick was born. American thrash metal and jazz guitarist.
• 1968 – Luke Goss was born. English actor.
• 1968 - Patrick Burns was born. Television presenter.
• 1968 – Samir Soni was born. Indian film actor.
• 1969 - Aleks Syntek was born. Mexican singer.
• 1969 – Angelo Barretto was born. Filipino race car driver.
• 1969 - Erika Eleniak was born. American actress and Playboy Playmate.
• 1970 - Emily Lloyd was born. British actress.
• 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner was born. American actress.
• 1970 – Nicolás Pereira was born. Venezuelan tennis player.
• 1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1970 - Edward Everett Horton dies (b. 1886). American actor.
• 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
• 1971 – Mackenzie Crook was born. British actor and comedian.
• 1971 - Sibel Tüzün was born. Turkish singer.
• 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1972 – Oliver Gavin was born. British racing car driver.
• 1972 - Robert Webb was born. British actor, comedian, and writer.
• 1972 – Togi Makabe was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos was born. Greek volleyball player.
• 1973 – Joe Hulbig was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1973 – Scout Niblett was born. British singer/songwriter.
• 1973 - W. H. Auden dies (b. 1907). English poet.
• 1974 - Alexis Cruz was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Brian Ash was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
• 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
• 1975 - Casey Stengel dies. Baseball player and manager
• 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko was born. Ukrainian football player.
• 1976 - Darren Byfield was born. English football player.
• 1976 - Oscar Sevilla was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1977 - Debelah Morgan was born. R&B coloratura soprano.
• 1977 - Portugal: As Bases da muralha de Cascais, a Bateria Alta, as Cortinas de Atiradores, o Forte de São Teodósio e o Forte do Guincho são classificados como imóveis de Interesse Público
• 1977 - União Soviética lança estação espacial Salyut 6
• 1978 - Kurt Nilsen was born. Norwegian singer.
• 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj was born. American gymnast.
• 1978 - Gunner McGrath was born. American vocalist and guitarist (Much The Same).
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1979 - Beau Zimmer was born. Telejournalist
• 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka was born. Belarussian handball player.
• 1981 - Bill Shankly dies (b. 1913). Scottish football manager.
• 1982 - 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
• 1982 - Ariana Jollee was born. American actress and director.
• 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
• 1983 - Mário Botas dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1984 - Per Mertesacker was born. German football player.
• 1986 - Benoit Pouliot was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1987 - Henry Ford II dies (b. 1917). President of Ford Motor Company.
• 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26. 1988 - Forças de Paz das Nações Unidas recebem Prémio Nobel da Paz.
• 1988 - Charles Addams dies (b. 1912). American cartoonist.
• 1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou was born. Australian soap actor. 1989 - Luís Dourdil dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished.
• 1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1991 - Military coup in Haiti. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti, is deposed.
• 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
• 1992 - Erotica (song) released by Madonna.
• 1992 - Lançamento do álbum Dirt da banda norte-americana Alice in Chains.
• 1992 - Primeiras eleições em Angola cujos resultados não são aceites pela UNITA.
• 1994 - Cheb Hasni dies (b. 1968). Algerian singer.
• 1995 - Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
• 1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
• 1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
• 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein dies (b. 1923). American artist.
• 1998 - Tom Bradley dies (b. 1917). Mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1998 - Jacyra Sampaio dies (b. 1922). Brazilian actress.
• 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu dies (b. 1923). President of South Vietnam.
• 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
• 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.
• 2004 - Baseball: The Montreal Expos play their last game at Olympic Stadium.
• 2004 - Richard Sainct dies (b. 1970). French motorcycle rally rider.
• 2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
• 2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
• 2005 - Austin Leslie dies (b. 1938). Considered by many the "Godfather of Fried Chicken".
• 2005 - Sérgio Correia da Costa dies (b. 1919). Brazilian historian and diplomat.
• 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
• 2006. The third most important flight disaster in Brazil happens with the Gol 1907 Flight
• 2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL, dies killed in Iraq. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen dies (b. 1976). Norwegian singer.
• 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique dies (b. 1926). Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic.
• 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon dies (b. 1912). French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec.
• 2006 - Walter Hadlee dies (b. 1915). New Zealand cricketer.
• 2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
• 2007 - Lois Maxwell dies (b. 1927). Canadian actress. 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.
• RC Saints - Michaelmas - Christian feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael
• England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar
• Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.
• Portugal: Municipal holidays in Cabeceiras de Basto and Fornos de Algodres