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.
- 480 BC –Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1885 –The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- 1907 –The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1971 –Oman joins the Arab League.
- 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.
- 1992 –Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 1995 –The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
- 2007 –Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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