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

  • 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.
  • 1567 –
    At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
  • 1789 –
    The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
  • 1850 –
    The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
  • 1864 –
    American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
  • 1911 –
    Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • 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.
  • 1949 –
    The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
  • 1954 –
    The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
  • 1963 –
    The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
  • 1964 –
    The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
  • 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.
  • 1990 –
    The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
  • 1991 –
    Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
  • 1995 –
    The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
  • 2001 –
    The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
  • 2004 –
    The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
  • 2009 –
    An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

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