SomeFacts | September 29

On this day - September 29

Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the ...

1011 — Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, ...

1227 — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope ...

1267 — The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as ...

1364 — During the Hundred Years' War, Anglo-Breton forces defeat ...

1567 — During the French War of Religion, Protestant coup officials ...

1578 — Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the ...

1714 — The Cossacks of the Tsardom of Russia kill about 800 people ...

1717 — An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of ...

1724 — J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich ...

1789 — The United States Department of War first establishes a ...

1829 — The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the ...

1848 — The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and ...

1850 — The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman ...

1855 — The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the ...

1864 — The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and ...

1864 — The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought in the American ...

1885 — The first practical public electric tramway in the world is ...

1907 — The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter ...

1911 — Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire, In this war , Italy ...

1918 — World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser ...

1918 — World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.

1918 — World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending ...

1920 — Ukrainian War of Independence: The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ...

1923 — The First American Track and Field championships for women are ...

1923 — The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon takes effect.

1923 — The Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory ...

1932 — Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and ...

1940 — Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, ...

1941 — During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local ...

1954 — The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization ...

1957 — The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever ...

1959 — A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 ...

1971 — Oman joins the Arab League.

1972 — Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's ...

1975 — WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television ...

1979 — Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is ...

1981 — An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military ...

1988 — NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since ...

1990 — The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in ...

1990 — The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for ...

1990 — Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint ...

1991 — A Haitian coup d'état occurs.

1992 — Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.

2004 — Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful ...

2004 — The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances ...

2005 — John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United ...

2006 — A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing ...

2007 — Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power ...

2008 — The stock market crashes with the Dow Jones dropping a then ...

2009 — The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills ...

2011 — The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials ...

2013 — Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the ...

2016 — Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts ...

2019 — Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential ...