Tukuk-OS📅 September 29
19 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on September 29? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2006 — Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Brazil, killing 154 people and triggering a national aviation crisis.
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907Embraer Legacy 600Peixoto de Azevedo
- 2005 — John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.
John RobertsChief Justice of the United StatesMelville Fuller
- 2004 — Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.
- 1991 — The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
Walt Disney Animation StudiosBeauty and the Beast (1991 film)New York Film Festival
- 1990 — The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
- 1964 — Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
- 1963 — The University of East Anglia (coat of arms featured) was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
- 1957 — An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
- 1955 — The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).
1955 Indonesian legislative electionMasyumi PartyBurhanuddin Harahap
- 1954 — Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
- 1941 — The Holocaust: Nazi forces, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, began a massacre of Jews in a ravine in Kyiv, killing more than 30,000 civilians in two days and thousands more in the following months.
The HolocaustUkrainian collaboration with Nazi GermanyBabi Yar
- 1940 — During a Royal Australian Air Force training exercise over Brocklesby, two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air (pictured); the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.
Royal Australian Air ForceBrocklesby, New South Wales1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
- 1923 — The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under King Abdullah I.
Mandate for PalestineMandatory PalestineEmirate of Transjordan
- 1918 — World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
World War IBattle of St Quentin CanalFourth Army (United Kingdom)
- 1833 — The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.
Spanish American wars of independenceFerdinand VIISpanish Empire
- 1760 — The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.
- 1726 — Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, a cantata for Michaelmas.
Johann Sebastian BachEs erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19Bach cantata
- 1724 — J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
Johann Sebastian BachHerr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130Paul Eber
- 1011 — An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner and seized power.
Births
- 2000 — Jaden McDaniels, American basketball player
- 1999 — Choi Ye-na, South Korean singer and dancer
- 1995 — Julien Baker, American singer-songwriter
- 1995 — Abhijeet Dipke, Indian satirical politician
- 1995 — Sasha Lane, American actress
- 1994 — Halsey, American singer
- 1994 — Nicholas Galitzine, English actor
- 1993 — Enxhi Seli-Zacharias, German politician
- 1991 — Souleymane Doukara, French footballer
- 1990 — Jordan Schroeder, American ice hockey player
- 1989 — Shyima Hall, Egyptian human rights activist
- 1988 — Kevin Durant, American basketball player
Deaths
- 2025 — Patrick Murray, British actor (born 1956)
- 2025 — Alan McDonald, Scottish Church Minister (born 1951)
- 2024 — Ozzie Virgil Sr., Dominican baseball player and coach (born 1932)
- 2022 — Kathleen Booth, British computer scientist and mathematician (born 1922)
- 2022 — Akissi Kouamé, Ivorian army officer (born 1955)
- 2020 — Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Emir (born 1929)
- 2020 — Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer, actress, and activist (born 1941)
- 2019 — Martin Bernheimer, German-American music critic (born 1936)
- 2018 — Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (born 1934)
- 2017 — Tom Alter, Indian actor (born 1950)
- 2016 — Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipina politician (born 1945)
- 2015 — Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1932)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Charles, Duke of Brittany
- Christian feast day: Cyriacus the Anchorite
- Christian feast day: Hripsime
- Christian feast day: Blessed Francesc de Paula Castelló Aleu
- Christian feast day: Guillaume Courtet
- Christian feast day: Jean de Montmirail
- Christian feast day: John of Dukla
- Christian feast day: René Goupil
- Christian feast day: Theodota of Philippi
- Christian feast day: September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Christian feast day: the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. One of the four quarter days in the Irish calendar. (England and Ireland). Called Michaelmas in some western liturgical traditions.
- Inventors' Day (Argentina)
- Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)
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