What happened this day in history

Wikipedia defines history as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. It came from the Greek word ‘historia’ – which means ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation’.

Did you know? There are many who claim Herodotus, a fifth century BC Greek historian, as the “father of history”.

This website utilizes pages from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are 105,060 records in the database that include events, births and deaths of popular individuals. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.

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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 272nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 93 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 16, 2023 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,265,760 minutes 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 ‘dihectaheptacontadigon’ 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 134 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 3,934 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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September 29 Historical Events

  • 1864
    American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
  • 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.
  • 1995
    The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the “Jolly Rogers”.
  • 2004
    The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.

Who were born on September 29?

  • 1786
    Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
  • 1913
    Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
  • 1945
    Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
  • 1963
    Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
  • 1978
    Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast

Who died on September 29?

  • 1913
    Rudolf Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
  • 1927
    Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
  • 1937
    Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
  • 2006
    Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
  • 2006
    Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)

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