The 29t o September is the 272t day o the year (273t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 93 days bidin.
Events 1015: St. Michael's Kirk in Hildesheim 2009 : Yirdquauk damage in American Samoa1015 - St. Michael's Kirk in Hildesheim, present-day Lawer Saxony , Germany , is consecratit. It is nou a UNESCO Warld Heritage site.
1227 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor is excommunicatit frae the Roman Catholic Kirk bi Pape Gregory IX for his refusal tae tak pairt in the Crusades.
1829 - Lunnon 's Metropolitan Polis is foondit bi Robert Peel .
1907 - The foondaition stane for Washington, D.C. 's Naitional Cathedral is laid.
1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire .
1923 - The Breetish mandate for Palestine taks effect.
1939 - Division o Poland atween Germany an the Soviet Union .
1941 - Holocaust : The Babi Yar massacre is committit in present-day Ukraine ; 33,000 Jews are murthert.
1944 - Warld War II : Soviet Union forces enter Yugoslavie .
1954 - CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is foondit.
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev disrupts a Unitit Naitions meetin wi ootbursts.
1971 - Oman jyns the Arab League .
1988 - NASA resumes Space Shuttle missions, efter the Challenger disaster in 1986.
1990 - Washington, D.C. 's Naitional Cathedral is completit.
2009 - A strong yirdquauk strikes Samoa , also affectin American Samoa an Tonga , efter tsunamis are caused.
2014 - Ashraf Ghani becomes Preses o Afghanistan .
2017 - Henry Bolton becomes leader o the UK Unthirldom Pairty .
Births Miguel de Cervantes Enrico Fermi Michelle Bachelet 106 BC - Pompey, Roman consul (d. 48 BC)
1240 - Margaret o Ingland, Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1275)
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spaingie theologian, medicinar, cartografer an Renaissance humanist (d. 1563)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes , Spaingie writer (d. 1616)
1571 - Caravaggio, Italian penter (d. 1610)
1574 - Ludovic Stewart, 2nt Duke o Lennox, Scots nobleman an politeecian (d. 1624)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson , Inglis admiral (d. 1805)
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno , Spaingie writer an philosopher (d. 1936 )
1881 - Ludwig von Mises , Austrick economist an sociologist (d. 1973)
1883 - David Taylor, Scots fitbawer (d. 1949 )
1901 - Enrico Fermi , Italian pheesicist (d. 1954)
1904 - Greer Garson , Inglis-American actress (d. 1996 )
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007 )
1931 - Anita Ekberg , Swadish actress (d. 2015)
1931 - James Cronin, American nuclear pheesicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2016)
1932 - Rainer Weiss, German-American pheesicist, jynt 2017 Nobel laureate
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi , Italian politeecian
1938 - Wim Kok , Dutch politeecian (d. 2018)
1939 - Jim Baxter, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001 )
1939 - Rhodri Morgan , Welsh politeecian, 2nt First Meenister o Wales (d. 2017)
1942 - Ian McShane , Inglis actor
1943 - Lech Walesa , umwhile Preses o Poland , Nobel laureate
1944 - Jim Whyte, Scots fitbawer
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann , German clarinetist
1951 - Michelle Bachelet , umwhile Preses o Chile
1956 - Sebastian Coe, Inglis athlete an politeecian
1961 - Julia Gillard , Australian politeecian, 27t Prime Meenister o Australie
1962 - Nicky Walker, Scots fitbawer
1966 - Bujar Nishani , umwhile Preses o Albanie
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian fitbawer
1984 - Per Mertesacker , German fitbawer
1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketbaw player
1994 - Halsey , American sangster an sangwriter
Daiths 855 - Lothair I, Roman Emperor (b. 715)
1560 - Gustav I o Swaden (b. 1494)
1829 - Anne Bannerman , Scots poet (b. 1765)
1830 - John Murray, 4t Duke o Atholl, Scots peer (b. 1755)
1833 - Ferdinand VII o Spain (b. 1784)
1902 - Emile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German ingineer (b. 1858)
1927 - Willem Einthoven , Dutch medicinar (b. 1860)
1930 - Ilya Repin, Roushie penter (b. 1844)
1932 - Henry Innes-Ker, 8t Duke o Roxburghe, Scots peer (b. 1876)
1950 - Robert Clark, Scots zoologist (b. 1882)
1952 - William Thomas Calman, Scots zoologist (b. 1871)
1960 - John Baillie, Scots theologian (b. 1886)
1973 - W. H. Auden , Inglis poet (b. 1907 )
1981 - Bill Shankly , Scots fitbaw manager (b. 1913 )
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American airtist (b. 1923 )
2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927 )
2010 - Georges Charpak , Pols-born pheesicist (b. 1924 )
2010 - Tony Curtis , American actor (b. 1925 )
2012 - Hebe Camargo, Brazilian telly presenter, sangster an actress (b. 1929 )
2012 - Neil Smith, Scots geografer (b. 1954)
2014 - Luis Nishizawa , Mexican penter (b. 1918 )
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