What are the important events that happened on September 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 29 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 16, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,880 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontatrigon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,300 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 29 Historical Events
- 1717 –An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city’s architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
- 1885 –The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
- 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.
- 1949 –The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
- 1960 –Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
- 1962 –Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
- 1988 –Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
- 1990 –The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
- 1992 –Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
- 2009 –An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
Who were born on September 29?
- 1842 –Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
- 1876 –Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911 (d. 1964)
- 1935 –Mylène Demongeot, French actress
- 1944 –Mike Post, American composer
- 1946 –Patricia Hodge, English actress
- 1960 –John Paxson, American basketball player
- 1976 –Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
- 1980 –Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
- 1986 –Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 –David Del Rio, American actor
Who died on September 29?
- 1304 –John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English soldier (b. 1231)
- 1642 –William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (b. 1561)
- 1804 –Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- 1913 –Rudolf Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
- 1925 –Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
- 1927 –Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
- 1952 –John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
- 2006 –Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
- 2006 –Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
- 2009 –Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
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