September 29

Thursday 29, 2005:

US Senate confirms The Honorable John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.

Wednesday 29, 2004:

Baseball: The Montreal Expos play their last game at Olympic Stadium.

Monday 29, 2003:

Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.

Saturday 29, 2001:

The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.

Sunday 29, 1996:

Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.

Tuesday 29, 1992:

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.

Thursday 29, 1988:

NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.

Friday 29, 1972:

Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.

Tuesday 29, 1964:

Argentine cartoonist Quino publishes his first Mafalda comic strip.

Sunday 29, 1963:

The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.

Saturday 29, 1962:

Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.

Friday 29, 1961:

The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Shelton's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond

Wednesday 29, 1954:

The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

Wednesday 29, 1943:

U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.

Monday 29, 1941:

The Babi Yar massacre begins.

Friday 29, 1939:

Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Thursday 29, 1938:

Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

Sunday 29, 1918:

The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.

Sunday 29, 1907:

The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

Monday 29, 1902:

Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.

Thursday 29, 1864:

American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.

Tuesday 29, 1829:

London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.

Tuesday 29, 1789:

1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.

Friday 29, 1567:

At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.

Saturday 29, 1364:

Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession

Wednesday 29, 855:

Pope Benedict III becomes pope.

Saturday 29, -48:

Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.

Tuesday 29, -61:

Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

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