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 273^rd 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.

September 29 Historical Events

• 1650 –
  Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
• 1789 –
  The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1911 –
  Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 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.
• 1957 –
  20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
• 1971 –
  Oman joins the Arab League.
• 1990 –
  The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 2004 –
  The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
• 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.

Who were born on September 29?

• 1881 –
  Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)
• 1913 –
  Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
• 1915 –
  Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
• 1941 –
  Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
• 1942 –
  Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
• 1942 –
  Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1943 –
  Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
• 1966 –
  Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player
• 1969 –
  Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
• 1970 –
  Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler

Who died on September 29?

• 1804 –
  Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
• 1900 –
  Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
• 1925 –
  Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
• 1930 –
  Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
• 1967 –
  Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
• 1982 –
  Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
• 1988 –
  Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 1994 –
  Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
• 1998 –
  Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
• 2010 –
  Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)