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.
- 522 BC –Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
- 1789 –The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
- 1789 –The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
- 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.
- 1885 –The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
- 1963 –The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
- 1975 –WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- 1991 –Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état).
- 1992 –Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 2001 –The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
- 2007 –Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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