This Day in History for 29th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 347

522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
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.
219 - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
235 - St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
440 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed
855 - Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1187 - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II
1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1364 - Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1521 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1564 - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 - War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX
1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
1650 - 2nd Fronde-uprising ends
1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1678 - France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
Roman Military and Political Leader Pompey the Great 1785 - Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
1793 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1815 - King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)
1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
1849 - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 - Great auroral display in US
1863 - Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1864 - Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights VA
1872 - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1872 - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1875 - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
1879 - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1890 - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1898 - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1902 - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1908 - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1911 - Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War
1911 - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1912 - French/British troops lands on Samoa
1913 - Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1914 - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 - Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC
1915 - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller 1916 - John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1920 - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
1920 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1921 - Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
1922 - Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
1923 - 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY
1923 - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1924 - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
1924 - Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
1925 - French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 - Greek republican constitution enforced
1926 - Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
1927 - Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1927 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928 - Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1928 - Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1930 - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
1930 - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1932 - "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair
1933 - Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1935 - 5th Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club (Ridgewood, New Jersey, US)
1936 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1937 - Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1938 - 1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC
1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 1940 - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940 - "Strike Up Band," opens
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 - Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
1941 - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1942 - 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1942 - Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
1943 - 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
1943 - Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1943 - German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1943 - Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 317

106 BC - Pompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman political and military leader ( 1st Triumvirate and Consul), (d. 48 BC)
1240 - Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1402 - Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta)
1518 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), (d. 1616)
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 - Roomen, mathematician
1571 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1583 - Johan VIII, the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen/field marshall
1620 - John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94)
1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 - Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized
1654 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer
1674 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer
Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547) 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1714 - Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1761-75)
1718 - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat (plot against Peter III)
1725 - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1727 - Henry Harington, composer
1746 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1753 - Johann Gottfried Schict, composer
1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar)
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1794 - William Michael Rooke, composer
1803 - Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem)
1803 - Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1810 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist
1812 - Gopel, mathematician
1815 - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver
1829 - Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1829 - Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1830 - John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914
1831 - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect
1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1848 - Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf
1849 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
1853 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
1854 - Martin Pluddemann, composer
1855 - Michele Esposito, composer
1857 - Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
1858 - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1863 - Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
1863 - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Bilbao Spain, philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro)
1867 - Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1879 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist
1884 - Boris Asafiev, composer
1887 - Billy Bevan, Orange Australia, actor (White Sin)
1891 - Gerda Bjorne, Varmland Sweden, actress (Familjen Bjork, Hemsoborna)
1893 - Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1893 - Phillip Tead, Somerville Mass, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade)
1894 - Franco Capuana, composer
1895 - Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1895 - Louise Granville, Sydney Australia, entertainer
1895 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1897 - Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976)
1899 - Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter
1899 - Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, & Eva
1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1903 - Karl August Andersen, composer
1903 - Ted Decorsia, Bkln NY, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1904 - Dorothy Emmet, philosopher
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1905 - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic
1907 - Gene Autry, Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/owner (California Angels)
1907 - Michael Shepley, Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 - Richard Harkness, Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week, NBC)
1908 - Greer Garson, North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice, Chips)
1908 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer
1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1909 - Andrew Herron, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1910 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Action in Arabia)
1911 - Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher
1912 - Lukas Ammann, Basel, actor (Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up, Red Desert)
1912 - Viscount Lambert
1913 - Silvio Piola, soccer star
1913 - Stanley E Kramer, NYC, producer/director (Inherit the Wind)
1915 - Ann Nagel, Boston MA, actress (Don Winslow of the Navy)
1915 - Brenda Marshall, Philippines, actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark)
1915 - Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1916 - Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist
1916 - Minao Shibata, composer
1916 - Trevor Howard, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1918 - Don Castle, TX, actor (Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol)
1918 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer
1919 - Masao Takemoto, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1960)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 12 of 12

1930 - Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
1934 - Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh
1949 - George Lascelles marries Maria Stein
1990 - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
2001 - Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez (32) weds dancer/choreographer Cris Judd (32) in Calabasas, California
2006 - Prince Louis of Luxembourg (20) weds Tessy Antony (26) at a parish church in Gilsdorf, Luxembourg
2007 - Olympic downhill skier Lindsey Kildow (23) weds former Olympic skier Thomas Vonn (31) at the Silver Lake Lodge in Deer Valley, Utah
2009 - American Idol's first runner-up Justin Guarini (30) weds Reina Capodici (27) in Doylestown, Pennsylvania
2012 - Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway (29) weds actor-turned-jewelry designer Adam Shulman (31) in Big Sur, California
2012 - "Fall Out Boy" lead singer Patrick Stump (28) weds longtime girlfriend Elisa Yao in Chicago
2012 - "Kings of Leon" bassist Jared Followill (25) weds model Martha Patterson (21) in Charlotte, Tennessee
2012 - "The Lovely Bones" actor Stanley Tucci (52) formally weds British literary agent Felicity Blunt at Middle Temple Hall in London

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2011 - "House M.D." actress Olivia Wilde (26) divorces Italian prince Tao Ruspoli (35) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 106

855 - Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies
1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany
1530 - Andrea del Sato, [d'Agnolo di Franceszo], Italian painter, dies at 44
1560 - Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60), dies
1575 - Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45
1598 - Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61
1619 - John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried
1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
1800 - William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1800 - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
1833 - Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain, dies
1862 - William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
1864 - Hiram Burnham, US Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle
1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
1889 - Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
1902 - Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies
1902 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
1904 - Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies
1908 - Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69
1910 - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
1913 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55
1914 - Jean Bouin, French marathoner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies in battle
1915 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
1915 - Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28
1925 - E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36
1925 - Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74
1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67
1927 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
1928 - Arnold Kent, dies
1928 - Lido Manetti, dies
1928 - Steinitz, mathematician, dies
1929 - Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1933 - Margaret Talmadge, dies
1937 - Ray Ewry, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08), dies at 63
1939 - Dickstein, mathematician, dies
1941 - Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79
1950 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer, dies
1951 - Bradley Barker, dies
1951 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1952 - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
1958 - Aare Merikanto, composer, dies at 65
1959 - Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies
1959 - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1961 - Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist, dies at 63
1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1964 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69
1966 - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Motion), dies at 75
1967 - Carson McCullers, US author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50
1967 - Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco), dies of leukemia at 67
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1973 - W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies
1974 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72
1975 - Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1977 - Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78
1978 - John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65
1981 - Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
1982 - H C Slinger Nitschke, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1931-32), dies
1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1984 - Marnix Gijsen, [Jan-Al Goris], writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
1986 - Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1987 - Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70
1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76
1989 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1989 - Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
1991 - Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder/grinder (Arabian), dies
1991 - Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered
1991 - Zapata Jaw, [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician, dies
1992 - Paul Jabara, singer/actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
1993 - Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60
1993 - Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26
1994 - Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46
1994 - John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68
1994 - Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
1995 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84
1995 - George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90
1995 - Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89
1995 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91
1995 - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51
1996 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison/Silence), dies at 73
1996 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87
1996 - Leslie Crowther, entertainer, dies at 63>>
1997 - Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97
1997 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73
1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
2001 - Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
2002 - Edmund Trebus, probably best known for his appearance on A Life of Grime (b. 1918)
2004 - Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)