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

  • 1364 –
    Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
  • 1789 –
    The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
  • 1829 –
    The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1907 –
    The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
  • 1932 –
    Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1954 –
    The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
  • 1957 –
    20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
  • 1966 –
    The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
  • 1971 –
    Oman joins the Arab League.
  • 1975 –
    WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
  • 1990 –
    Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
  • 1990 –
    The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
  • 2001 –
    The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
  • 2004 –
    The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
  • 2004 –
    The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
  • 2007 –
    Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

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