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- 0235 St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0440 Leo I becomes pope.
- 0480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 0522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 0855 Benedict III becomes pope.
- 0855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning the wells
- 1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
- 1567 At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
- 1567 The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
- 1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.
- 1785 Chaidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
- 1789 First congress adjourns
- 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.
- 1793 Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine
- 1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
- 1829 Scotland Yard formed in London
- 1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
- 1848 Battle of Pkozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pkozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
- 1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
- 1859 Great auroral display in US
- 1863 The opera "Pescatori di Perle", more properly known as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles", is produced (Paris)
- 1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater
- 1907 The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 1915 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta
- 1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line
- 1918 Australians storm the Hindenburg Line, France
- 1918 Capt. John McGregor (2nd Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France
- 1918 Captain GH Wilkins, official AIF photographer, rallies United States troops at the battle of the Hindenburg Line, while taking photographs For this action he is awarded a bar to his Military Cross, becoming the only Australian official photographer to be decorated for bravery in the field
- 1918 The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I. Bulgaria signed an armistice.
- 1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
- 1924 Plutarco Elas Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
- 1927 Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri
- 1930 Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute
- 1930 The final section of the 3'6" gauge railway on Prince Edward Island is converted to standard gauge. The conversion work on the island had started in 1919.
- 1936 Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign
- 1938 Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1938 Munich Conference, Chamberlain of Britain and Daladier of France agree to German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939 World War II: capitulation of Poland to Germany.
- 1940 First US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
- 1941 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6
- 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.
- 1943 Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
- 1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
- 1953 Milton Berle Show premiers
- 1954 The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
- 1957 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
- 1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
- 1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
- 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Ricky Valence - Tell Laura I Love Her
- 1962 Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
- 1962 Launch of Alouette 1, first Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
- 1963 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
- 1963 The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- 1964 The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- 1965 The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
- 1969 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC
- 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.
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level
- 1973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
- 1975 Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
- 1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- 1977 Muhammad Ali won a unanimous, 15-round decision over Earnie Shavers
- 1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
- 1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Police - Message In A Bottle
- 1979 Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
- 1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
- 1982 Tylenol Crisis of 1982 began when the first of seven individuals died in metropolitan Chicago.
- 1985 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
- 1985 Visitor posting - Patrocinio N the love of my life is born-CMS - USA
- 1986 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
- 1986 Visitor posting - Andrea L. Reinke was Born Neenah WI - USA
- 1988 NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven
- 1990 Visitor posting - September 29, 1990 Sean Liam Loughead was born
- 1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 1990 Visitor posting - Gary & Julie Bailey are wed in Harrison, OH - USA
- 1991 Military coup in Haiti.
- 1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 1992 Erotica (song) released by Madonna
- 1994 Visitor posting - 2009 A.F.I released it's eighth studio album titled "Crash Love" - USA [email protected]
- 1995 Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
- 1996 Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in North America.
- 1998 Visitor posting - The out break of the T-virus in Raccoon City - USA
- 2001 The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
- 2003 Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
- 2004 The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize.
- 2004 The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
- 2005 Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
- 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 introduced.
- 2008 Jewish Holiday - Rosh Hashanah - No work is permitted. September 29 - October 1, 2008
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