About September 29

September 29, 2025 is the 272nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 93 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 141 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened 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.
  • 1364 –
    Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
  • 1567 –
    At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
  • 1829 –
    The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
  • 1885 –
    The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
  • 1918 –
    World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
  • 1932 –
    Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
  • 1938 –
    Munich Agreement: Germany was given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting occurred in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attended.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
  • 1949 –
    The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
  • 1951 –
    The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
  • 1957 –
    20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
  • 1964 –
    The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
  • 1972 –
    Sino-Japanese 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 –
    Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
  • 1992 –
    Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
  • 1995 –
    The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
  • 2004 –
    The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
  • 2009 –
    An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

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