September 29th
Holidays and Festivals
Confucius Day
VFW Day
One of the four Quarter (Irish calendar)
Inventor's Day * (see below)
Feast Day of Michaelmas
Feast of the Archangels St. Michael
Feast of St. Gabriel
Feast of St. Raphael
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (20-21)
* Pop Montreal Festival Montréal, Canada September 29 - October 3 (1of5) (2010)
* Inventor's Day, celebrate the birthday of László József Bíró, the inventor of ballpoint. (Argentina)
Fête de la Amaranthe Translation: Amaranth Day (French Republican) The Eighth day of the Month of Vendémiaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Mojito 3 (Brown Sugar)
3 shots white rum
2 teaspoons brown sugar
Half Lime
Mint Leaves
Mash the lime, sugar and mint leaves, Fill Glass With crushed ice and add the Rum. Stir with a teaspoon to make mint leaves rise. Garnish a with Lime.
- See July 31st for Mojito 1 and April 30th for Mojito 2
Wine of The Day
Rotta Winery NV Black Monukka Dessert Wine
Style - Dessert Wine
California
$30
Beer of The Day
Stone IPA
Brewer - Stone Brewing, Escondido, CA, USA
Style - American IPA
ABV - 6.9%
Joke of The Day
An old man was in a bar, talking to a young man. The old man says:
"Look out there to the field. Do you see that fence? Look how well it's built. I built that fence stone by stone with my own two hands. I piled it for months. But do they call me Gary-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo.."
Then the old man gestured at the bar. "Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by my own achin' back. I carved that wood with my own hard labor, for eight days. But do they call me Gary-the-Bar-builder? Nooo..."
Then the old man points out the window. "Hey, look out to sea. Do ya see that pier that stretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off my back. I nailed it board by board. But do they call me Gary-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo..."
Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention. He leans closer to the young man and says "But I screw one goat......."
Quote of The Day
"Just because it’s not what you were expecting, doesn’t mean it’s not everything you’ve been waiting for."
- Unknown
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Child Passenger Safety Week, Last Week in SeptemberDeaf Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Adult Immunization Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Banned Books Week, Last Week in September
National Dog Week, Last Week in September
National Keep Kids Creative Week, Last Week in September
Remember to Register to Vote Week, Last Week in September
International Women's E-Commerce Days, Last Week in September
National Forest Week (Canada), Last Week in September * CLICK HERE
World Hearing Aid Awareness Week, Last Sunday of September to next Saturday
National Chimney Safety Week, Week before First Full Week in October
Fall Astronomy Week, Week of Fall Astronomy Day (Saturday between mid-September and mid-October so as to be on or close to the first quarter Moon)
Historical Events on September 29th
(522 BC) Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
(480 BC) Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
(61 BC) Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
219 Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
235 St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
440 Pope Leo I the Great, installed
855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1187 Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat the French in Brittany, end of the Breton War of Succession.
1521 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1564 Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1567 The second War of Religion in France breaks out. Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX.<(522 BC) Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
(480 BC) Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
(61 BC) Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
219 Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
235 St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
440 Pope Leo I the Great, installed
855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1187 Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat the French in Brittany, end of the Breton War of Succession.
1521 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1564 Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1567 The second War of Religion in France breaks out. Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX.
1608 Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
1650 2nd Fronde-uprising ends
1650 Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters the first historically documented dating service (marriage bureau) in Threadneedle Street, London.
1678 France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
1717 An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
1785 Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1815 King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard), later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 Battle of Pákozd, Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1850 The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 Great auroral display in US
1863 Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1864 The Battle of Chaffin's Farm of the American Civil War is fought.
1864 Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights VA of the American Civil War.
1872 "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
1872 Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1875 US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1890 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1898 French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1902 Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater
1904 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
1911 Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War.
1911 Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1912 French-British troops lands on Samoa
1913 Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
1913 Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1914 Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
1915 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915 Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 Herbert Blossoms musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC
1915 Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1916 John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1918 The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces of World War I. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1920 Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
1920 Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1921 Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL
1922 Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
1923 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY
1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1924 Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
1924 Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
1925 French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 Greek republican constitution enforced
1926 Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
1927 Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1927 Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928 Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 First Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
1930 Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1930 Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
1930 NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1932 "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair
1932 Last day of the Battle of Boquerón of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1933 Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1934 Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh
1935 5th Ryder Cup, US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club (Ridgewood, New Jersey, US)
1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1937 Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1938 First archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC
1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain
1940 "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940 "Strike Up Band," opens
1940 First US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1941 Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine during World War II, German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1942 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1942 Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
1943 First Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
1943 Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1943 German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1943 U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta in World War II.
1943 Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger, Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug
1944 Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH
1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1945 Cubs clinch NL pennant
1946 "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs
1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1946 NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
1947 Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY
1947 Former Yankee manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1947 Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828)
1948 Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema
1948 WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins
1948 WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 "Front Page," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 "Inside USA With Chevrolet," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli
1949 George Lascelles marries Maria Stein
1949 The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
1950 "Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV
1950 Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1950 Yankees clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel
1951 First color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
1951 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1952 "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV
1952 Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance
1953 "Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
1953 First department store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago Ill
1953 Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1953 Milton Berle Show premieres
1953 US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1954 "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol
1954 "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC
1954 "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres
1954 Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom
1954 KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1954 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1955 "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia
1955 Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in NYC
1956 "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
1956 "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
1957 "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV
1957 "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1957 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"
1957 NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1957 Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1958 "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
1958 "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8
1958 "Texan," debuts on CBS-TV
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV
1959 "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
1959 Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant
1959 Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1960 "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
1960 "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
1960 "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
1960 "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
1960 "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances
1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1961 "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester
1961 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
1962 "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7
1962 "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3
1962 "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs
1962 "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1962 "You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48
1962 Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
1962 Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1962 Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader
1962 JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi
1962 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1963 Second session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th & 3,630th hit
1963 Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1963 Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1963 Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1963 Stan Musial Day in St Louis
1963 The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
1963 The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
1964 Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1964 The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season
1965 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1965 WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana
1966 Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1967 1st bishop synod, Rome
1967 Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
1967 Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1967 Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater
1968 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown
1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV
1969 "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1969 "Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 "Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1969 Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart"
1969 Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season
1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1970 "NET Festival," last aired
1971 "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1971 Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
1971 Oman joins the Arab League.
1971 Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
1971 Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Sino-Japanese relations, Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1973 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33
1973 "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1
1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1974 4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29
1974 5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30
1974 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1975 "Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV
1975 Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984
1975 Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1976 "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV
1976 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law
1976 Boy George expelled from school
1976 Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest
1976 SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1976 Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1976 Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1977 "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1
1977 Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship
1977 James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked
1977 Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1978 "Flying High," debuts on CBS
1978 "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
1979 "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35
1979 "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
1979 "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56
1979 "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16
1979 "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12
1979 "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18
1979 "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15
1979 "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1979 "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6
1979 "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK
1979 "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22
1979 Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival
1979 LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
1980 Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1982 First broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1982 The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show
1983 First time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 Airport of Beirut reopens
1983 Congress authorized Pres Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon
1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1984 "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
1984 "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
1984 "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
1984 "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66
1984 "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1
1984 "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
1984 "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
1984 "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14
1984 "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
1984 Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic
1985 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV
1985 "Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
1985 "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1985 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1985 Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
1985 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
1986 "Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA
1986 "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
1986 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
1987 "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV
1987 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year
1988 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1988 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 Union Station reopens in Wash DC
1989 Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1990 "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart
1990 "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
1990 "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1990 Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
1990 Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
1990 Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1990 US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1991 "My Own Private Idaho" premieres
1991 29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean Course (South Carolina, US)
1991 Military coup in Haiti.
1991 Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1992 Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
1992 Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)
1992 Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1993 "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV
1993 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins
1994 1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
1994 House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
1994 Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1995 Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
1995 OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
1995 Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1995 The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
1995 US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
1996 "Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC
1996 34th Tennis Fed Cup, USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0)
1996 Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas)
1996 Baltimore Orioles end season with record 257 HRs
1996 Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34
1996 Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
1996 Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
1996 SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
1996 Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic
1996 US wins Federation Cup over Spain
1997 Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins
2001 The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2003 Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
2004 The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2004 The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2005 Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
2005 Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
2005 US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.
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.
2009 An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami
2013 42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria
2013 16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria
2014 Ashraf Ghani becomes President of Afghanistan
Born on September 29th
(106 BC) Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), Roman political and military leader ( 1st Triumvirate and Consul) (d. 48 BC)
1 Birth of Jesus of Nazareth (not confirmed)
1240 Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1321 John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1402 Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez, saint
1511 Michael Servetus (Miguel Servet), Spainish physician, humanist (Christianism Rostituta) (d. 1553)
1518 Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote) (d. 1616)
1548 William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
1561 Roomen, mathematician
1571 Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1571 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1583 Johan VIII, the Younger, count of Nassau-Siegen, field marshall
1620 John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94)
1636 Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
1654 Vincenz Lubeck, composer
1674 Jacques Hotteterre, composer
1678 Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1714 Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1761-75)
1718 Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat (plot against Peter III)
1725 Robert Clive, English explorer, general, founder (British empire in India) (d. 1774)
1727 Henry Harington, composer
1746 Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1753 Johann Gottfried Schict, composer
1758 Horatio Nelson, British admiral (Trafalgar) (d. 1805)
1766 Charlotte, Princess Royal, German queen (d. 1828)
1786 Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1794 William Michael Rooke, composer
1803 Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem) (d. 1850)
1803 Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1808 Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
1810 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
1812 Gopel, mathematician
1815 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver
1829 Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1829 Giles Alexander Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1830 John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914
1831 John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect
1842 Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
1843 Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1848 Caroline Ardelia Yale, US, educated deaf
1849 Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
1853 Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
1854 Martin Pluddemann, composer
1855 Michele Esposito, composer
1857 Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
1858 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1863 Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer
1863 Hugo Haase, German politician, revolutionary, and jurist (d. 1919)
1864 Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1864 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro) (d. 1936)
1867 Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader
1876 Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911 (d. 1964)
1879 Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
1881 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)
1884 Boris Asafiev, composer
1887 Billy Bevan, Orange Australia, actor (White Sin)
1891 Gerda Bjorne, Varmland Sweden, actress (Familjen Bjork, Hemsoborna)
1893 Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1893 Phillip Tead, Somerville Mass, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade)
1894 Franco Capuana, composer
1895 J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
1895 Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1895 Louise Granville, Sydney Australia, entertainer
1895 Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1897 Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
1899 Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter
1899 Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, & Eva
1899 László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
1900 Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (Nobel laureate 1938) (d. 1954)
1901 Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1903 Karl August Andersen, composer
1903 Ted Decorsia, Bkln NY, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1904 Dorothy Emmet, philosopher
1904 Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1905 Francis Joseph Quinn, academic
1907 Gene Autry, American actor, singer, businessman, owner (California Angels) (d. 1998)
1907 George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
1907 Michael Shepley, Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 Richard Harkness, Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week, NBC)
1908 Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1908 Greer Garson, North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice, Chips)
1908 James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer
1909 Andrew Herron, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1910 Virginia Bruce, American actress (Action in Arabia) (d. 1982)
1911 Reginald Victor Jones, CH, FRS natural philosopher
1912 Lukas Ammann, Basel, actor (Day of Anger, Class Reunion, Palace Hotel)
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (Blow-up, Red Desert) (d. 2007)
1912 Viscount Lambert
1913 Silvio Piola, soccer star
1913 Stanley E Kramer, American film director, producer (Inherit the Wind) (d. 2001)
1913 Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1915 Ann Nagel, Boston MA, actress (Don Winslow of the Navy)
1915 Brenda Marshall, American film actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark) (d. 1992)
1915 Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1916 Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist
1916 Minao Shibata, composer
1916 Trevor Howard, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1918 Don Castle, TX, actor (Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol)
1918 Harold Laurence Walters, composer
1919 Masao Takemoto, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1920 Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
1920 Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor (Boris Godunov, Step, Otello)
1920 Vaclav Neummann, conductor
1921 Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director (Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist)
1922 Lizabeth Scott, American actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
1923 Ellen Malcolm, painter
1923 O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1923 Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)
1924 David Atkinson, British air marshal
1924 Steve Forrest, American actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT)
1925 John Balcombe, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal
1925 John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx)
1925 Trevor Hughes, water engineer
1926 Phyllis Taylor, educationist
1927 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-52, 56)
1927 Paul McCloskey (Sen-R-California)
1928 Ankie (Johanna A Hoving-)Peypers, Dutch author, poet
1928 Lord Avebury
1929 Murray McLaggan, British Lord-Lieutenant (Mid Glamorgan)
1930 Billy Strange (William), Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation), (d. 2012)
1930 Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
1930 Morag Timbury, director (Central Public Health Laboratory)
1930 Peter Miller, CEO (Lloyd's of London)
1930 Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
1930 Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
1931 Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita), Miss Sweden (1950)
1931 E S Orr Ewing, Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown
1931 Eddie Barth, Phila, actor (Shaft, Simon & Simon)
1931 James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
1931 Joseph M McDade, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania, 1963)
1932 Canon Paul Oestreicher, CEO (British section, Amnesty International
1932 Jeremy Isaacs, general director (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
1932 Mary Moon, Headmistress (Manchester High School for Girls)
1932 Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
1932 Peter Stormonth Darling, CEO (Mercury Asset Management Group)
1932 Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1932 Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist (pop art)
1933 Samora Machel, president Mozambique (1975-86)
1934 Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
1934 Lindsay Kline, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler Hat-trick 1957)
1934 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor
1934 Skandor Akbar, American professional wrestler and manager
1935 David Hannay, diplomat
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician, country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin')
1936 Michael Partridge, British civil servant
1936 Mylene Demongeot, Nice France, actress (3 Murderesses)
1936 Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
1937 Alice Mahon, British MP
1937 R B Heywood, director (British Antarctic Survey)
1938 Henry Keswick, British financier, CEO (Matheson & Company, merchant (Hong Kong)
1938 Mike McCormick, MLB Pitcher (SF Giants, Cy Young 1967)
1938 Wim Kok, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1994-2002)
1939 Eberhard Koellner, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31 backup)
1939 Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1939 Larry Linville, American actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie) (d. 2000)
1939 Molly Haskell, American film critic
1939 Rhodri Morgan, 2nd First Minister for Wales
1939 Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (Boyce & Hart)
1940 Jimmy Knapp, trade unionist
1940 John Dawes, rugby coach
1940 Mike Eischeid, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1940 Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 Colin Niven, Headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1941 David Steele, cricketer (England batsman, courageous v Lillee 1975)
1941 Don Nix, US saxophonist (Last Night)
1941 Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
1941 Kermit Zarley, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1970 Canadian Open)
1942 Bill Nelson, American politician
1942 Donna Corcoran, Quincy Mass, actress (Man Without a Star)
1942 Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
1942 Ian McShane, British actor (Roots, Bare Essence)
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 Madeline Kahn, American actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety) (d. 1999)
1942 Rajinder Goel, cricketer (slow lefty who didn't play for India)
1942 Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter, playwright (d. 1996)
1942 William Nelson, (Rep-D-Fla, 1979), astronaut (STS 61C)
1943 Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
1943 Lech Walesa, President of Poland (Nobel Peace Prize 1983)
1943 Manuel Fernandez, rocker
1943 Mohammad Khatami, President of Iran
1943 Peter Rigby, CEO (Specialist Computer Holdings)
1944 Mike Post, American composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
1944 Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart, Monkees)
1944 Torben Jensen, Denmark, actor (Taxa, Hayfever, Watch Me Fly, Guldregn)
1945 Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
1945 Nadezhda Chizova, USSR, shot putter (Oly-gold/silv/bronze-68/72/76)
1945 Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of British Public Records
1945 Tatiana Tauer, harpist
1946 Alasdair Fraser, QC/director (Public Prosecutions for N Ireland)
1946 Nick Taylor, singer-guitarist (Bloodrock)
1946 Patricia Hodge, actress (Heat of the Day, Shell Seekers, Sunset)
1947 Altie Taylor, soccer star
1947 Jon Snow, British TV journalist (Channel 4)
1947 Lyndon Harrison, MEP
1947 Martin Ferrero, American actor
1947 R J Evans, FBA, historian
1948 Bryant Gumbel, American television personality (Today Show), sportscaster
1948 John M McHugh, (Rep-R-NY)
1948 Mark Farner, American guitarist and vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 Mike Pinear, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1948 Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
1948 Viktor Krovopouskov, USSR, sabres/fencer (Olympic gold, individual and team, 1976, 1980)
1949 George Dalaras, Greek singer
1949 Steve Busby, footballer
1949 Tony Hoty, Cleve OH, actor (Ransom, Paper)
1951 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 David Murray, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper)
1951 Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1951 Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
1951 Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
1952 Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
1952 Max Sandlin, American politician
1952 Monika Zehrt, German DR, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 R A Hodges, archaeologist
1953 Drake Hogestyn, American actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1953 Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director, writer (Leola, Night Zoo) (d. 1997)
1953 Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
1954 Cindy Morgan (Cichorski), American actress (Tron)
1954 Stephen Platt, editor (New Statesman & Society)
1955 Benoît Ferreux, French actor
1955 Ken Weatherwax, American actor (Pugsley-The Addams Family-TV series)
1955 Mark Mitchell, actor (Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero)
1955 Vicki Fergon, Palo Alto CA, LPGA golfer (1979 Lady Stroh's)
1956 James Donald Halsell Jr, Monroe La, astronaut (STS 65, 74, 83, 94)
1956 Sebastian Newbold Coe, English athlete, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1956 Suzzy Roche, rocker (Roches)
1957 Andrew "Dice" Clay (Silverstien), American comedian and actor (Adv of Ford Fairlane)
1957 Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee
1957 Craig Lefferts, MLB Pitcher
1957 Mari Wilson, British singer
1957 Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sports presenter
1957 Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
1957 Tim Flannery, DJ/MLB player (SD Padres)
1959 Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol, Death Wish 2)
1960 Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
1960 David Sammartino, American professional wrestler
1960 John MacBeth Paxson, NBA Guard (Chicago Bulls)
1960 John Paxson, American Basketball Player and GM
1960 Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Capitol)
1960 Rob Deer, MLB Outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1960 Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1961 Julia Gillard, Australian politician
1961 Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
1962 Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist
1962 Roger Bart, American actor
1963 Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus, Flying Frog Brigade, Oysterhead)
1964 Brad Lohaus, American basketball player, NBA forward, center (NY Knicks)
1964 John Tucker, Windsor, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 Julie Peterson, Havre de Grace Md, playmate (Feb, 1987)
1965 Fora van Leijenhorst, Curacaos/Neth dancer (Josephine)
1965 Trent Yawney, Hudson Bay, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1966 Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics, Olympic-bronze-1988)
1966 Jason Gould, son of Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould
1966 Jill Whelan, American actress (Vicki-Love Boat, Young & Restless)
1966 Ken Norton Jr, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, SF 49ers)
1966 Rudy Poeschek, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
1967 Dave Silvestri, St Louis MO, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1968 Alex Skolnick, American thrash metal and jazz guitarist
1968 Luke Goss, English actor
1968 Matt Goss, rocker (Bros)
1968 Mika Hakkinen, racing driver
1968 Patrick Burns, American television presenter
1968 Samir Soni, Indian film actor
1969 Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
1969 Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
1969 Erika Eleniak, American actress (Baywatch) and model, playmate (Jul, 1989)
1969 Kelly Robbins, Mt Pleasant MI, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA)
1970 Chris Mims, NFL defensive end (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Danny de Supervise, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 Derrick Oden, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Emily Lloyd, British actress (Wish You Were Here, In Country)
1970 Joseph Hudson, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1970 Luke Bodensteiner, Iowa City Iowa, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1970 Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress (Dark Horse, SFW), Robert Wagner's daughter
1970 Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
1970 Russell Peters, Canadian stand-up comedian
1970 Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer (European Amat champ 1994)
1970 Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
1971 Adrion Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 Derrick Davis, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Donald Smith, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 Jay Kearney, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
1971 Ray Buchanan, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1972 Butler By'not'e, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers)
1972 Jorgen Jonsson, hockey forward (Team Sweden 1998)
1972 Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
1972 Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
1972 Togi Makabe, Japanese professional wrestler
1972 Trent Zenkewicz, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
1973 Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
1973 Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
1974 Alexis Cruz, American actor
1974 Brian Ash, American film producer
1974 Danielle DuClos, actress (Midnight Run, Zits)
1974 Steve Bennett, web designer
1975 Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
1975 Heather Pease, Monterey California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
1976 Darren Byfield, English footballer
1976 Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
1977 Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
1977 Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
1977 Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Won Bin, South Korean actor
1978 Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
1978 Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1978 Mandy Groff, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1996)
1978 Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1979 Shelley Duncan, American Baseball Player
1979 Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
1980 Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire, City and Colour)
1980 Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
1980 Sarah Sucher, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1997)
1980 Zachary Levi, American actor
1981 Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
1982 Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
1982 Matt Giteau, Australian Rugby Union Player
1982 Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter
1984 Per Mertesacker, German footballer
1985 Calvin Johnson, American football player
1986 Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 Emily Evelyn Chase, daughter of Jayni & Chevy
1988 Justin Nozuka, Canadian singer-songwriter
1988 Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1989 Theo Adams, British performance artist
1990 Doug Brochu, American actor
1999 Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
2008 Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family
Died on September 29th
855 Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun)
1364 Charles, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
1530 Andrea del Sato (d'Agnolo di Franceszo), Italian painter
1560 Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60) (b. 1496)
1575 Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle
1598 Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg
1619 John Lippershey, inventor of telescope
1637 Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (b. 1600)
1642 René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1703 Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
1800 Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
1800 Michael Dennis, jesuit, author
1800 William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon)
1804 Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
1833 Ferdinand VII, King of Spain (b. 1784)
1862 William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered
1864 Hiram Burnham, US Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle
1887 Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
1889 Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
1895 Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization)
1900 Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
1902 Iosif Ivanovici, composer
1902 William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
1902 Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
1904 Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903)
1908 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (Dom Casmurro) (b. 1839)
1910 Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck)
1913 Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer, Inventor (Diesel Motor) (b. 1858)
1914 Jean Bouin, French marathoner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies in battle
1915 Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
1915 Rudi Stephan, composer
1925 E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen)
1925 Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-1896) (Nobel Peace Prize 1920) (b. 1851)
1927 Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
1927 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist, inventor (Nobel laureate 1924) (b. 1860)
1928 Arnold Kent
1928 Lido Manetti
1928 Steinitz, mathematician
1929 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29)
1930 Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1933 Margaret Talmadge
1937 Ray Ewry, American athlete, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 08) (b. 1873)
1939 Dickstein, mathematician
1941 Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory)
1950 Balthazar H Verhagen, South African dramatist, writer
1951 Bradley Barker
1951 Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1952 John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
1958 Aare Merikanto, composer
1959 Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist
1959 Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square)
1961 Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist
1962 Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill
1964 Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
1966 Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Motion)
1967 Carson McCullers, American author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter) (b. 1917)
1967 Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco)
1970 Edward Everett Horton, American actor, narrator (Bulwinkle Show) (b. 1886)
1973 W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
1974 John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister
1975 Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (NY YankeeS 1949-60) (b. 1890)
1976 Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)
1977 Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78
1978 John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65
1981 Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
1982 H C Slinger Nitschke, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1931-32)
1982 Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1984 Marnix Gijsen (Jan-Al Goris), writer (Lament for Agnes)
1986 Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry)
1987 Henry Ford II, president (Ford Motor Company) (b. 1917)
1988 Charles Addams, American cartoonist (Addams Family) (b. 1912)
1989 A A Busch Jr, brewer, baseball owner (St Louis Cards)
1989 Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
1991 Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder, grinder (Arabian)
1991 Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered
1991 Zapata Jaw (Nelson Renfrum), Surinamese musician
1992 Paul Jabara, singer/actor (Last Dance)
1993 Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan
1993 Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang)
1994 Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered (b. 1968)
1994 Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident
1994 John Heddle Nash, singer
1994 Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered
1995 Francis Frederick Johnson, architect
1995 George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer
1995 Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher
1995 Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
1995 Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans)
1996 Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison/Silence)
1996 Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice
1996 Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)
1997 Milner Connorton Gray, designer
1997 Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician
1997 Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
1998 Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
1998 Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
2001 Nguyen Văn Thieu, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
2002 Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
2004 Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
2005 Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
2006 Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006 Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006 Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
2006 Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2007 Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
2009 Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
2009 Sperantza Vrana, Greek actress (b. 1926 or 1932)
2010 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast) (b.1965)
2010 Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
2010 Georges Charpak, Polish-French Physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors
2013 L. C. Greenwood, American football player
2013 Walter White, Fictional Character from the show Breaking Bad, died during the final episode
2015 Phil Woods, American Jazz saxophonist and composer