September 29 in History

Historical Events on September 29

522 BC

Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumata, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
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.
1227

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1364

Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the War of the Breton Succession.
1578

Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
1650

Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
1717

An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
1789

The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789

The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1829

The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848

Battle of Pákozd: Stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
1850

The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
1855

Iloilo was opened to world trade by Queen Isabella II of Spain.[1][2]
1864

American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1864

The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
1885

The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1907

The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1911

Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918

World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica. The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack. Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
1923

The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1923

The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
1932

Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1938

The Munich Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy settles the Sudetenland dispute in Germany's favor. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are not invited.
1940

Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.
1941

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1949

The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
1954

The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1957

Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1960

Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1971

Oman joins the Arab League.
1972

China-Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1975

WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1979

The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
1988

Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1990

Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
1990

The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991

Haitian coup d'état.
1992

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
2004

The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004

The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2006

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2007

Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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.
2009

The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving 189 dead and hundreds injured.
2013

Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.

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