About September 29
September 29, 2024 is the 273rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 93 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 122 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 29
- 522 BC –Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 1227 –Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
- 1364 –Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
- 1789 –The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 1848 –Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
- 1907 –The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 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.
- 1960 –Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1966 –The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- 1971 –Oman joins the Arab League.
- 1982 –The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
- 1988 –Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 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.
- 2006 –Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
- 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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