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Historical Events on September 29

  • Pompey

    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.

  • American Civil War

    1864

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

  • World War I

    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.

  • British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument)

    1923

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

  • World War II

    1941

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

  • Communist Party of China

    1949

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

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    1960

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

  • Oman

    1971

    Oman joins the Arab League.

  • Asteroid

    2004

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