On this day: September 29th

On this day: September 29th

There are many events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: September 29th

On this day: September 29th

Events On this day: September 29th

• 1789: The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
• 1789: Congress created the United States Army, consisting of 1,000 enlisted men and officers.
• 1829: London’s Metropolitan Police becomes the first official police department in the world.
• 1941: Nazis killed 33,771 Jews during the Babi Yar massacre near Kiev.
• 1951: The first live sporting event, a college football game, that is shown coast-to-coast in the United States.
• 1954: CERN established. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, was established by 12 European governments.
• 1972: First Canadian satellite is launched. Canada launched its first ever satellite, Alouette 1, on this day from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A joint venture between NASA and Defence Research and Development Canada, the satellite was sent to study the Earth’s ionosphere.
• 1988: NASA resumes space shuttle flights which had stopped after the Challenger disaster.
• 1991: Coup in Haiti. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed in a military coup. Aristide had been elected in a national election held 8 months before the coup.

• 1994: Sinking of MS Estonia. MS Estonia, a passenger and car ferry, sank in the Baltic Sea killing more than 800 passengers. It is considered to be the worst maritime peace-time disaster of the 20th century.

Birthdays On this day: September 29th

• 106 BC: Pompey the Great (Leader of Rome)
• 1511: Michael Servetus (Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer)
• 1547: Miguel de Cervantes (Author of Don Quixote)
• 1786: Guadelupe Victoria (First President of Mexico)
• 1901: Nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was born in Rome. While teaching at the University of Chicago, he developed a method of causing nuclear fission, producing a chain reaction releasing explosive nuclear energy, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
• 1935: Jerry Lee Lewis (Singer)
• 1936: Silvio Berlusconi (Italian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy)
• 1948: Bryant Gumbel (TV Host)
• 1951: Michelle Bachelet (Chilean politician, 34th President of Chile)
• 1961: Julia Gillard (Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia)
• 1962: Roger Bart (Actor)
• 1988: Kevin Durant (Basketball Player)

Deaths On this day: September 29th

• 1902: Émile Zola (French author, critic)
• 1973: W. H. Auden (English/American poet)
• 1981: Bill Shankly (Scottish footballer, manager)
• 1997: Roy Lichtenstein (American painter, sculptor)
• 2009: Pavel Popovich (Soviet astronaut)

Read also: On this day: September 28th