Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 29
This is a list of selected September 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Avro Ansons, having landed after collision
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 61 BC – In Rome, Pompey the Great celebrated triumphs over pirates in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and in the war against king Mithridates VI of Pontus in Asia Minor, with enormous parades of spoils, prisoners, army and banners depicting battle scenes. | Article already on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 28 |
| 1364 – English forces defeated the French at the Battle of Auray in the French town of Auray, the decisive confrontation of the Breton War of Succession, a part of the Hundred Years' War. | unreferenced section |
| 1774 – The publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther raised the 24-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to international fame. | refimprove section |
| 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, originally headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded. | unreferenced sections |
| 1885 – The Blackpool Tramway, one of the first practical electric tramways in the world, opened in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. | Blackpool Tramway has unreferenced section; Tram: date not cited |
| 1907 – Construction work began on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and then completed on the same day 83 years later. | refimprove section |
| 1954 – Twelve countries signed a convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory. | expand section |
| 1964 – Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina. | refimprove |
| 1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan established diplomatic relations with China, breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). | stub |
| 1982 – A 12-year-old girl in the Chicago area was killed by cyanide-laced Tylenol, the first of seven people over the next few days. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1918 – World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
- 1938 – At a conference in Munich, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier reached a settlement, signing it at about 1:30 a.m. the next day, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
- 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remained locked together after colliding, and landed safely.
- 1957 – An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
- 1962 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite, and the first constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, was launched.
- 1991 – The Haitian Army deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, eight months after the nation's first democratic elections.
- 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
- Born/died: Ferdinand the Holy Prince (b. 1402) · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1758) · Guadalupe Victoria (b. 1786) · Mercator Cooper (b. 1803) · W. H. Auden (d. 1973) · Bill Shankly (d. 1981) · Michael A. Monsoor (d. 2006)
September 29: Michaelmas (Christianity)
- 1923 – The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under Abdullah I.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi forces, aided by local collaborators, began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed.
- 1954 – Willie Mays (pictured) of Major League Baseball's New York Giants made one of the most famous defensive plays in baseball history, known as "The Catch".
- 1963 – The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing such a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
- 1990 – The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
William of Tyre (d. 1186) · Jim Baxter (b. 1939) · Kevin Durant (b. 1988)