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.
- 522 BC –Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 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.
- 1717 –An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city’s architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
- 1789 –The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
- 1966 –The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- 1979 –Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
- 1988 –Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 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.
- 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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