September 29 in History

Historical Events on September 29

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.

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

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.

1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.

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.

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

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.

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Famous Birthdays on September 29

1936 Silvio Berlusconi

1951 Michelle Bachelet

1961 Julia Gillard

1994 Halsey (singer)

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Famous Deaths on September 29

1973 W. H. Auden

1975 Casey Stengel

2001 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

2016 Miriam Defensor Santiago

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