Step Back in Time: Unforgettable Events That Shaped History on September 29
News Context
At a glance
Today in History: September 29
On This Day
Today is Sunday, September 29, the 272nd day of 2024. There are 93 days until the end of the year.
Birthdays
- 106 BC – Gnaeus Pompey the Great, Roman military leader and statesman
- 1518 – Jacopo Robusti Tintoreto, Italian painter
- 1758 – Horejo Nelson, English admiral
- 1839 – Mihailo Valtrović, Serbian archaeologist and art historian
- 1851 – Mita Cenić, Serbian journalist and publisher
- 1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian nuclear physicist
- 1903 – Greer Garson, Irish-born American film actress
- 1904 – Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky, Russian writer
- 1905 – Vladan Desnica, Serbian writer
Events
- 1399 – King Richard the Second was forced to abdicate the throne
- 1867 – Opening of the Michaelmas Assembly in Kragujevac
- 1911 – Italy declares war on Turkey and invades the Libyan province of Tripolitania
- 1913 – The German engineer Rudolf Diesel disappeared
- 1923 – Great Britain began to rule Palestine
- 1930 – The Russian painter Ilya Yefimovich Rjepin died
- 1938 – The Munich Agreement was signed
- 1940 – Romania withdrew from the Balkan Pact
- 1941 – A conference of the Soviet Union, the USA and Great Britain began in Moscow
- 1941 – The Germans ended the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev
- 1957 – A train accident in West Pakistan killed nearly 300 people
- 1970 – Anwar el Sadat takes over as head of state in Egypt
- 1972 – Japan and China end a state of war and normalize relations
- 1979 – Equatorial Guinea President Francisco Macias Nguema was deposed
- 1988 – UN peacekeeping forces received the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1990 – US Secretary of State James Baker met with Vietnam’s head of diplomacy
- 1991 – Major Milan Tepić was killed in Bjelovar
- 1994 – NATO increased air attacks on Republika Srpska
- 2000 – The Law on the Uniform Passport of BiH was introduced
- 2001 – The United Nations Security Council adopts a broad counter-terrorism resolution
- 2003 – Milan Lukić, Oliver Krsmanović and Dragutin Dragićević were sentenced to prison
- 2003 – EU foreign ministers asked for sovereignty to be restored to Iraq