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 272^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 93 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 16, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,318,400 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 141 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 4,665 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 1829 –
  The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin’s Farm is fought.
• 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.
• 1954 –
  The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• 1979 –
  Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1990 –
  The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 2001 –
  The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2006 –
  Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
• 2009 –
  An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

Who were born on September 29?

• 1758 –
  Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
• 1803 –
  Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
• 1915 –
  Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
• 1932 –
  Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
• 1942 –
  Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
• 1947 –
  Martin Ferrero, American actor
• 1951 –
  Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
• 1953 –
  Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director (d. 1997)
• 1960 –
  Julian Armour, Canadian cellist and artistic director
• 1977 –
  Jake Westbrook, American baseball player

Who died on September 29?

• 1804 –
  Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
• 1902 –
  Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
• 1913 –
  Rudolf Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine (b. 1858)
• 1970 –
  Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
• 2002 –
  Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
• 2005 –
  Austin Leslie, American chef, the “Godfather of Fried Chicken” (b. 1934)
• 2006 –
  Louis-Albert Vachon, French Canadian cardinal archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
• 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)
• 2009 –
  Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1926 or 1932)