Events on September 29 45
Year 1227
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
Year 1364
Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the War of the Breton Succession.
Year 1650
Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
Year 1717
An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
Year 1789
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
Year 1848
Battle of Pákozd: Stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Year 1850
The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
Year 1864
The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
Year 1885
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
Year 1918
World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica. The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack. Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
Year 1938
The Munich Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy settles the Sudetenland dispute in Germany's favor. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are not invited.
Year 1940
Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.
Year 1941
World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
Year 1949
The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
Year 1954
The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
Year 1957
Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
Year 1960
Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
Year 1972
China-Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
Year 1975
WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
Year 1979
The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
Year 1988
Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Year 2004
The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
Year 2006
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
Year 2007
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
Year 2008
Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
Year 2009
The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving 189 dead and hundreds injured.
Year 2013
Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.
Year ?
Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumata, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
Year ?
Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.