29 September

The **29t o September** is the 272t day o the year (273t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 93 days bidin.

## Events

* 1015 - St. Michael's Kirk in Hildesheim, present-day Lawer Saxony, Germany, is consecratit. It is nou a UNESCO Warld Heritage site.
* 1227 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor is excommunicatit frae the Roman Catholic Kirk bi Pape Gregory IX for his refusal tae tak pairt in the Crusades.
* 1829 - Lunnon's Metropolitan Polis is foondit bi Robert Peel.
* 1907 - The foondaition stane for Washington, D.C.'s Naitional Cathedral is laid.
* 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
* 1923 - The Breetish mandate for Palestine taks effect.
* 1939 - Division o Poland atween Germany an the Soviet Union.
* 1941 - Holocaust: The Babi Yar massacre is committit in present-day Ukraine; 33,000 Jews are murthert.
* 1944 - Warld War II: Soviet Union forces enter Yugoslavie.
* 1954 - CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is foondit.
* 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev disrupts a Unitit Naitions meetin wi ootbursts.
* 1971 - Oman jyns the Arab League.
* 1988 - NASA resumes Space Shuttle missions, efter the Challenger disaster in 1986.
* 1990 - Washington, D.C.'s Naitional Cathedral is completit.
* 2009 - A strong yirdquauk strikes Samoa, also affectin American Samoa an Tonga, efter tsunamis are caused.
* 2014 - Ashraf Ghani becomes Preses o Afghanistan.
* 2017 - Henry Bolton becomes leader o the UK Unthirldom Pairty.

## Births

* 106 BC - Pompey, Roman consul (d. 48 BC)
* 1240 - Margaret o Ingland, Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1275)
* 1511 - Michael Servetus, Spaingie theologian, medicinar, cartografer an Renaissance humanist (d. 1563)
* 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spaingie writer (d. 1616)
* 1571 - Caravaggio, Italian penter (d. 1610)
* 1574 - Ludovic Stewart, 2nt Duke o Lennox, Scots nobleman an politeecian (d. 1624)
* 1758 - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson, Inglis admiral (d. 1805)
* 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spaingie writer an philosopher (d. 1936)
* 1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrick economist an sociologist (d. 1973)
* 1883 - David Taylor, Scots fitbawer (d. 1949)
* 1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian pheesicist (d. 1954)
* 1904 - Greer Garson, Inglis-American actress (d. 1996)
* 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
* 1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swadish actress (d. 2015)
* 1931 - James Cronin, American nuclear pheesicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2016)
* 1932 - Rainer Weiss, German-American pheesicist, jynt 2017 Nobel laureate
* 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politeecian
* 1938 - Wim Kok, Dutch politeecian (d. 2018)
* 1939 - Jim Baxter, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001)
* 1939 - Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politeecian, 2nt First Meenister o Wales (d. 2017)
* 1942 - Ian McShane, Inglis actor
* 1943 - Lech Walesa, umwhile Preses o Poland, Nobel laureate
* 1944 - Jim Whyte, Scots fitbawer
* 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German clarinetist
* 1951 - Michelle Bachelet, umwhile Preses o Chile
* 1956 - Sebastian Coe, Inglis athlete an politeecian
* 1961 - Julia Gillard, Australian politeecian, 27t Prime Meenister o Australie
* 1962 - Nicky Walker, Scots fitbawer
* 1966 - Bujar Nishani, umwhile Preses o Albanie
* 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian fitbawer
* 1984 - Per Mertesacker, German fitbawer
* 1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketbaw player
* 1994 - Halsey, American sangster an sangwriter

## Daiths
* 855 - Lothair I, Roman Emperor (b. 715)
* 1560 - Gustav I o Swaden (b. 1494)
* 1829 - Anne Bannerman, Scots poet (b. 1765)
* 1830 - John Murray, 4t Duke o Atholl, Scots peer (b. 1755)
* 1833 - Ferdinand VII o Spain (b. 1784)
* 1902 - Emile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
* 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German ingineer (b. 1858)
* 1927 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch medicinar (b. 1860)
* 1930 - Ilya Repin, Roushie penter (b. 1844)
* 1932 - Henry Innes-Ker, 8t Duke o Roxburghe, Scots peer (b. 1876)
* 1950 - Robert Clark, Scots zoologist (b. 1882)
* 1952 - William Thomas Calman, Scots zoologist (b. 1871)
* 1960 - John Baillie, Scots theologian (b. 1886)
* 1973 - W. H. Auden, Inglis poet (b. 1907)
* 1981 - Bill Shankly, Scots fitbaw manager (b. 1913)
* 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American airtist (b. 1923)
* 2007 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
* 2010 - Georges Charpak, Pols-born pheesicist (b. 1924)
* 2010 - Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
* 2012 - Hebe Camargo, Brazilian telly presenter, sangster an actress (b. 1929)
* 2012 - Neil Smith, Scots geografer (b. 1954)
* 2014 - Luis Nishizawa, Mexican penter (b. 1918)

## Halidays

* St. Michael's Day (Christianity)
* Inventor's Day (Argentinae)
* Battle o Boqueron Day (Paraguay)
* Internaitional Coffee Day
* Warld Hairt Day