September 29 facts for kids

This page tells you about important things that happened on September 29th throughout history, as well as famous people who were born or died on this day.

Events

Ancient Times and Middle Ages

• 61 BC – Pompey the Great, a famous Roman general, celebrated a huge victory parade in Rome. It was his third "triumph," which was a special celebration for winning big wars. This happened on his 45th birthday!
• 1011 – Danish forces captured the city of Canterbury in England after surrounding it for a long time. They took Ælfheah, the archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
• 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, was officially removed from the church by Pope Gregory IX. This happened because he didn't join the Crusades, which were religious wars at the time.
• 1267 – The Treaty of Montgomery was signed, recognizing Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as the Prince of Wales. However, he still had to be loyal to King Henry III of England.
• 1364 – During the Hundred Years' War, English and Breton forces won a battle against French and Breton forces in Brittany. This battle, called the Battle of Auray, ended the War of the Breton Succession.
• 1567 – During the French Wars of Religion, Protestant officials in Nîmes carried out a terrible event known as the Michelade, where Catholic priests were killed.
• 1578 – Tegucigalpa, which is now the capital city of Honduras, was claimed by Spanish explorers.

1600s to 1900s

• 1714 – During a time known as the Great Wrath, Cossack soldiers from the Russian Empire caused a tragic event in Hailuoto, where many people lost their lives overnight.
• 1717 – A powerful earthquake hit Antigua Guatemala, destroying many of the city's buildings.
• 1789 – The United States Department of War created the first official regular army for the United States, with a few hundred soldiers.
• 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, was started. This was a big step for modern policing.
• 1848 – The Battle of Pákozd took place between Hungarian and Croatian forces. It was the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and ended in a tie.
• 1850 – A special order from the Pope, called Universalis Ecclesiae, brought back the Roman Catholic Church's official structure in England and Wales.
• 1855 – The Philippine port of Iloilo was opened up for trade with countries all over the world by the Spanish government.
• 1864 – The Battle of Chaffin's Farm was fought during the American Civil War.
• 1864 – The Treaty of Lisbon was signed, setting the borders between Spain and Portugal and getting rid of a tiny independent area called Couto Misto.
• 1885 – The world's first practical public electric tramway (a type of streetcar) opened in Blackpool, England.

1900s to Today

• 1907 – The first stone was laid for the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., a very important church.
• 1911 – Italy declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 – Bulgaria signed the Armistice of Salonica, which meant they stopped fighting in World War I.
• 1918 – The strong Hindenburg Line of German defenses was broken by Allied forces in World War I.
• 1918 – Germany's top army leaders told Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Georg Michaelis to start talking about a ceasefire to end World War I.
• 1920 – During the Ukrainian War of Independence, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic agreed to a truce with the Makhnovshchina (an anarchist army).
• 1923 – The Mandate for Palestine officially began, creating Mandatory Palestine.
• 1923 – The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon also officially began.
• 1923 – The first American Track and Field championships for women were held.
• 1932 – The Battle of Boquerón ended between Paraguay and Bolivia during the Chaco War.
• 1940 – Two Avro Ansons (types of planes) crashed into each other in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia. Amazingly, they stayed stuck together and landed safely!
• 1941 – During World War II, German forces and local helpers began the terrible two-day Babi Yar massacre.
• 1954 – The agreement to create CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), a famous science lab, was signed.
• 1957 – The Kyshtym disaster happened, which was one of the worst nuclear accidents ever recorded.
• 1959 – A Lockheed L-188 Electra plane crashed in Buffalo, Texas, and 34 people died.
• 1971 – Oman joined the Arab League, a group of Arab countries.
• 1972 – Japan started official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, ending its ties with Republic of China.
• 1975 – WGPR became the first television station in the US owned and operated by Black people.
• 1979 – The leader of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias, was executed by soldiers.
• 1981 – An Iranian Air Force military plane crashed near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.
• 1988 – NASA launched STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the sad Challenger disaster.
• 1990 – The construction of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. was finally finished.
• 1990 – The Lockheed YF-22, which later became the famous F-22 Raptor fighter jet, flew for the very first time.
• 1990 – The Tampere Hall, the biggest concert and meeting center in the Nordic countries, opened in Tampere, Finland.
• 1991 – A coup d'état (a sudden takeover of the government) happened in Haiti.
• 1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was removed from office.
• 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed relatively close to Earth, about four times the distance to the Moon.
• 2004 – Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne successfully flew into space. This was the first of two flights needed to win the Ansari X Prize, a competition for private spaceflight.
• 2005 – John Roberts was confirmed as the Chief Justice of the United States, the highest judge in the country.
• 2006 – A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 plane crashed in mid-air, killing 154 people and causing a big aviation crisis in Brazil.
• 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, was taken down in a controlled explosion.
• 2008 – The stock market crashed after the first vote on a financial rescue plan failed in the US House of Representatives, marking the start of the Great Recession.
• 2009 – An 8.1 magnitude earthquake near Samoa caused a tsunami that killed over 189 people and injured hundreds.
• 2013 – Over 42 people were killed by members of Boko Haram at a college in Nigeria.
• 2016 – Eleven days after the 2016 Uri attack, the Indian Army carried out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

Births

Before 1600

• 106 BC – Pompey, a famous Roman general and politician.
• 1240 – Margaret of England, who became the Queen of Scots.
• 1402 – Ferdinand the Holy Prince of Portugal.
• 1511 – Michael Servetus, a Spanish doctor, mapmaker, and theologian.
• 1527 – John Lesley, a Scottish bishop.
• 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, a famous Spanish novelist who wrote Don Quixote.
• 1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria.
• 1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, a Flemish priest and mathematician.
• 1574 – Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, a Scottish nobleman.

1600s to 1900s

• 1602 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, an English military leader.
• 1636 – Thomas Tenison, an English archbishop.
• 1639 – William Russell, Lord Russell, an English politician.
• 1640 – Antoine Coysevox, a French sculptor.
• 1673 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, a French flute player and composer.
• 1691 – Richard Challoner, an English bishop.
• 1703 – François Boucher, a French painter.
• 1725 – Robert Clive, an English general and politician.
• 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, a famous English admiral.
• 1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal of England.
• 1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, a Mexican general and politician.
• 1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, a French mathematician.
• 1808 – Henry Bennett, an American lawyer and politician.
• 1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, a well-known English author.
• 1812 – Adolph Göpel, a German mathematician.
• 1832 – Joachim Oppenheim, a Czech rabbi and author.
• 1832 – Miguel Miramón, a president of Mexico.
• 1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, a Russian general.
• 1844 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, a president of Argentina.
• 1844 – Edward Pulsford, an English-Australian politician.
• 1853 – Luther D. Bradley, an American cartoonist.
• 1863 – Ludwig Holborn, a German physicist.
• 1863 – Hugo Haase, a German lawyer and politician.
• 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, a Spanish philosopher and author.
• 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, a Ukrainian historian and politician.
• 1881 – Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian-American economist and philosopher.
• 1882 – Lilias Armstrong, an English expert in phonetics.
• 1891 – Ian Fairweather, a Scottish-Australian painter.
• 1895 – Clarence Ashley, an American singer and musician.
• 1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, an American scientist who studied parapsychology.
• 1895 – Roscoe Turner, a famous American pilot.
• 1897 – Herbert Agar, an American journalist and historian.
• 1898 – Trofim Lysenko, a Ukrainian-Russian biologist.
• 1899 – László Bíró, a Hungarian-Argentinian journalist who invented the ballpoint pen.
• 1899 – Billy Butlin, an English businessman who founded the Butlins holiday camps.

1900s to Today

• 1901 – Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize.
• 1903 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, a president of Mexico.
• 1904 – Greer Garson, a famous English-American actress.
• 1907 – Gene Autry, a popular American singer, actor, and businessman.
• 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, a president of the Philippines.
• 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, an Italian film director.
• 1913 – Trevor Howard, an English actor.
• 1913 – Stanley Kramer, an American film director and producer.
• 1916 – Carl Giles, a famous English cartoonist.
• 1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize.
• 1923 – Stan Berenstain, an American author and illustrator, known for the Berenstain Bears books.
• 1925 – Paul MacCready, an American engineer who founded AeroVironment.
• 1926 – Chuck Cooper, an American basketball player.
• 1931 – James Cronin, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize.
• 1931 – Anita Ekberg, a Swedish-Italian model and actress.
• 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, a famous American singer-songwriter and pianist.
• 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, an Italian businessman and former Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1938 – Wim Kok, a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 1942 – Madeline Kahn, an American actress and singer.
• 1942 – Ian McShane, an English actor.
• 1942 – Bill Nelson, an American politician.
• 1943 – Lech Wałęsa, a Polish electrician and politician who became the President of Poland and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1948 – Bryant Gumbel, an American journalist and sportscaster.
• 1951 – Michelle Bachelet, a Chilean politician who became President of Chile.
• 1956 – Sebastian Coe, an English sprinter and politician.
• 1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, an American comedian and actor.
• 1961 – Julia Gillard, a Welsh-Australian lawyer and former Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1963 – Les Claypool, an American bass player and singer.
• 1966 – Bujar Nishani, a former President of Albania.
• 1969 – Erika Eleniak, an American model and actress.
• 1970 – Russell Peters, a Canadian comedian and actor.
• 1971 – Mackenzie Crook, an English actor and screenwriter.
• 1972 – Robert Webb, an English comedian and actor.
• 1973 – Alfie Boe, an English singer and actor.
• 1980 – Zachary Levi, an American actor and singer.
• 1980 – Chrissy Metz, an American actress.
• 1984 – Per Mertesacker, a German footballer.
• 1985 – Calvin Johnson, an American football player.
• 1988 – Kevin Durant, an American basketball player.
• 1994 – Halsey, an American singer.

Deaths

Before 1600

• 722 – Leudwinus, a Frankish archbishop and saint.
• 855 – Lothair I, a Roman emperor.
• 1186 – William of Tyre, an archbishop.
• 1298 – Guido I da Montefeltro, an Italian military leader.
• 1304 – John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, an English general.
• 1364 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany.
• 1560 – Gustav I of Sweden, a king of Sweden.

1600s to 1900s

• 1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, a Filipino martyr and saint.
• 1642 – René Goupil, a French missionary and saint.
• 1715 – George Haliburton, a Scottish bishop.
• 1800 – Michael Denis, an Austrian poet.
• 1804 – Michael Hillegas, the first Treasurer of the United States.
• 1833 – Ferdinand VII of Spain, a king of Spain.
• 1850 – David Keith Ballow, a Scottish-Australian doctor.
• 1861 – Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, a Polish composer and pianist.
• 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson, an American general.
• 1867 – Sterling Price, an American major general and politician.
• 1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, a German surgeon.
• 1889 – Louis Faidherbe, a French general and politician.
• 1898 – Thomas F. Bayard, an American lawyer and politician.
• 1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, an American lawyer and politician.

1900s to Today

• 1902 – William McGonagall, a Scottish poet.
• 1902 – Émile Zola, a famous French journalist and author.
• 1908 – Machado de Assis, a Brazilian author and poet.
• 1910 – Winslow Homer, a famous American painter.
• 1913 – Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer who invented the diesel engine.
• 1918 – Lawrence Weathers, an Australian soldier.
• 1925 – Léon Bourgeois, a French politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1927 – Willem Einthoven, an Indonesian-Dutch physiologist who won the Nobel Prize.
• 1930 – Ilya Repin, a Ukrainian-Russian painter.
• 1935 – Winifred Holtby, an English novelist and journalist.
• 1937 – Ray Ewry, an American triple jumper.
• 1949 – Rosa Olitzka, a German-American singer.
• 1952 – John Cobb, an English race car driver.
• 1953 – Ernst Reuter, a German politician.
• 1956 – Anastasio Somoza García, a president of Nicaragua.
• 1967 – Carson McCullers, an American novelist and playwright.
• 1970 – Edward Everett Horton, an American actor.
• 1973 – W. H. Auden, a famous English-American poet.
• 1975 – Casey Stengel, a famous American baseball player and manager.
• 1979 – Francisco Macías Nguema, the first President of Equatorial Guinea.
• 1981 – Bill Shankly, a Scottish footballer and manager.
• 1987 – Henry Ford II, an American businessman.
• 1988 – Charles Addams, an American cartoonist, creator of The Addams Family.
• 1995 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an American atheist and activist.
• 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, a famous American painter and sculptor.
• 1998 – Tom Bradley, a mayor of Los Angeles.
• 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, a president of South Vietnam.
• 2005 – Patrick Caulfield, an English painter.
• 2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor.
• 2007 – Lois Maxwell, a Canadian actress, known for playing Miss Moneypenny in James Bond films.
• 2010 – Tony Curtis, a famous American actor.
• 2010 – Greg Giraldo, an American comedian.
• 2011 – Sylvia Robinson, an American singer-songwriter and producer.
• 2012 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, an American publisher.
• 2013 – Harold Agnew, an American physicist and engineer.
• 2015 – Hellmuth Karasek, a German journalist and author.
• 2016 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, a Filipina politician.
• 2017 – Tom Alter, an Indian actor.
• 2018 – Otis Rush, an American blues guitarist and singer.
• 2020 – Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait.
• 2020 – Helen Reddy, a famous Australian-American singer and actress.
• 2022 – Kathleen Booth, a British computer scientist and mathematician.

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Charles, Duke of Brittany
  • Hripsime
  • Jean de Montmirail
  • Theodota of Philippi
  • September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. This is one of the four quarter days in the Irish calendar. It is also called Michaelmas in some western church traditions.
• Inventors' Day (Argentina)
• Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
• World Heart Day

See also

In Spanish: 29 de septiembre para niños