September 29


September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are
93 days remaining.

Events:

   * 855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope
   * 1364 - Battle of Auray - English forces defeat French at Brittany
   * 1789 - United States War Department first establishes regular army with
     strength of several hundred men.
   * 1789 - First United States Congress adjourns
   * 1829 - London's reorganized police force goes on duty. Later became
     known as Scotland Yard.
   * 1864 - Battle of New Market Heights
   * 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
   * 1918 - Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I
   * 1938 - Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich
     Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of
     Czechoslovakia.
   * 1941 - Babi Yar massacre begins
   * 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.
   * 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
   * 1944 - Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia
   * 1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council
   * 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the
     Challenger disaster
   * 2004 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar
     distances of Earth.

Births:

   * 106 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman statesman and general
   * 1328 - Joan of Kent
   * 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, author (+ 1616)
   * 1758 - Lord Horatio Nelson, British admiral (+ 1805)
   * 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (+ 1954)
   * 1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (+ 1996)
   * 1907 - Gene Autry, actor, singer, businessman (+ 1998)
   * 1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete
   * 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, film director
   * 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor (+ 1988)
   * 1913 - Stanley Kramer, film director
   * 1931 - Anita Ekberg, actress
   * 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
   * 1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politician and former prime minster
   * 1939 - Larry Linville, actor (+ 2000)
   * 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
   * 1942 - Madeline Kahn, actress (+ 1999)
   * 1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish trade union activist and politician
   * 1948 - Bryant Gumbel, television personality
   * 1956 - Sebastian Coe, track and field champion
   * 1964 - Tom Sizemore, actor
   * 1964 - Les Claypool, bassist of Primus

Deaths:

   * 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope
   * 855 - Lothair, King of Lotharingia
   * 1694 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
   * 1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States
   * 1902 - Emile Zola, important writer
   * 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, Irish poet
   * 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, automobile pioneer
   * 1913 - Trevor Howard, actor
   * 1967 - Carson McCullers, author
   * 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
   * 1975 - Casey Stengel, American baseball player and coach
   * 1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist
   * 1997 - Roy Liechenstein, artist
   * 1998 - Tom Bradley, former mayor of Los Angeles, California
   * 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam