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Holidays and observances

Religious feasts

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Events

★ 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt (may have occurred September 29, records unclear).

★ 351 - Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.

★ 365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.

★ 935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslav I of Bohemia.

★ 995 - Members of Slavník's dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.

★ 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.

★ 1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.

★ 1322 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.


★ 1394 - Benedict XIII succeeds Clement VII as Avignon Pope.

★ 1448 - Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.

★ 1542 - Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego, California, United States.

★ 1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

★ 1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

★ 1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.

★ 1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

★ 1823 - Leo XII is elected pope.

★ 1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

★ 1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.

★ 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.

★ 1868 - Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.

★ 1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slavery.

★ 1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.

★ 1928 - UK passed Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) - outlawing cannabis.

★ 1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.

★ 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

★ 1941 - Major League Baseball: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits a batting average of .406 that was originally at .3995. He is the last player to have a batting average of .400 or better.

★ 1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.

★ 1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.

★ 1958 - France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.

★ 1961 - A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

★ 1962 - Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane,Australia.

★ 1971 - UK Misuse of Drugs Act: medicinal cannabis is banned.

★ 1972 - Paul Henderson scores The Goal to win the Canada/USSR (ice hockey) "Summit Series".

★ 1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.

★ 1976 - R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album ''Songs in the Key of Life.''

★ 1987 - Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of TV show '' airs.

★ 1994 - The car ferry ''MS Estonia'' sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

★ 1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.

★ 1996 - Arsene Wenger is appointed manager of Arsenal F.C..

★ 2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Arial Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

★ 2003 - Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium.

★ 2004 - An expected but overdue magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Parkfield, California

Births

★ 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)

★ 58 BC - Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. 29)

★ 1493 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)

★ 1605 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)

★ 1667 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)

★ 1681 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)

★ 1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d. 1774)

★ 1746 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)

★ 1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)

★ 1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)

★ 1823 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)

★ 1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)

★ 1836 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)

★ 1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)

★ 1852 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)

★ 1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)

★ 1867 - Kiichiro Hiranuma, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)

★ 1881 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)

★ 1887 - Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)

★ 1889 - Jack Fournier, baseball player (d. 1973)

★ 1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)

★ 1893 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (d. 1984)

★ 1898 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (d. 1957)

★ 1901 - William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)

★ 1901 - Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)

★ 1905 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)

★ 1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)

★ 1909 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)

★ 1913 - Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator

★ 1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)

★ 1916 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (d. 1977)

★ 1923 - John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician (d. 2007)

★ 1923 - William Windom, American actor

★ 1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)

★ 1925 - Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)

★ 1925 - Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)

★ 1925 - Arnold Stang, American actor

★ 1926 - Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)

★ 1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer

★ 1932 - Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer, theatre director, and political activist (d. 1973)

★ 1933 - Miguel Berrocal, Sculptor (d. 2006)

★ 1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress

★ 1934 - Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)

★ 1937 - Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader

★ 1937 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)

★ 1938 - Ben E. King, American singer and songwriter

★ 1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American biologist

★ 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician

★ 1942 - Marshall Bell, American actor

★ 1942 - Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)

★ 1943 - Joel Higgins, American actor

★ 1943 - Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)

★ 1943 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)

★ 1946 - Helen Shapiro, English singer

★ 1946 - Jeffrey Jones, American actor

★ 1947 - Bob Carr, Former Premier of New South Wales

★ 1947 - Sheikh Hasina, Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh

★ 1950 - John Sayles, American director and screenwriter

★ 1950 - Laurie Lewis, American musician

★ 1951 - Wei Chen, Canadian journalist

★ 1952 - Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress

★ 1954 - Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman

★ 1954 - George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)

★ 1955 - Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician

★ 1960 - Jennifer Rush, American pop singer

★ 1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii

★ 1962 - Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player

★ 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian

★ 1964 - Claudio Borghi, Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo)

★ 1966 - Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director

★ 1966 - André Breton, French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist

★ 1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress

★ 1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress

★ 1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish 2 time Formula 1 World Champion

★ 1968 - Naomi Watts, English-born actress

★ 1969 - Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer

★ 1969 - Mark Everett, former child actor, now fugitive

★ 1969 - Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer

★ 1970 - Mike DeJean, American baseball player

★ 1970 - Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver

★ 1971 - Alan Wright, English footballer

★ 1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist

★ 1973 - Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician

★ 1973 - Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player

★ 1974 - Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer

★ 1974 - Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer

★ 1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer

★ 1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist

★ 1977 - Young Jeezy, American Rapper

★ 1977 - Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer

★ 1978 - Bushido, German rapper

★ 1979 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder

★ 1981 - Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer

★ 1981 - Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress

★ 1981 - José Calderón, Spanish basketball player

★ 1982 - Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player

★ 1982 - Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player

★ 1982 - Emeka Okafor, American basketball player

★ 1982 - Anderson Varejão, American basketball player

★ 1983 - Stefan Moore, English footballer

★ 1984 - Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player

★ 1984 - Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer

★ 1986 - Andres Guardado, Mexican soccer player

★ 1987 - Hilary Duff, American actress, singer, fashion design and entrepreneur

★ 1988 - Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer

★ 1989 - Mark Randall, English footballer

★ 1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress

Deaths

★ 48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)

★ 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope

★ 876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)

★ 935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)

★ 1104 - Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)

★ 1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)

★ 1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria

★ 1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)

★ 1618 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)

★ 1687 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)

★ 1694 - Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)

★ 1702 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b. 1640)

★ 1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)

★ 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)

★ 1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)

★ 1891 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)

★ 1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)

★ 1914 - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)

★ 1915 - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)

★ 1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)

★ 1918 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)

★ 1935 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)

★ 1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)

★ 1959 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)

★ 1964 - Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)

★ 1966 - André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)

★ 1970 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)

★ 1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918)

★ 1978 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)

★ 1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)

★ 1981 - Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)

★ 1982 - Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)

★ 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)

★ 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)

★ 1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)

★ 1993 - Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)

★ 1993 - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)

★ 1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946)

★ 1994 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)

★ 2002 - Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)

★ 2002 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)

★ 2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)

★ 2003 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1909)

★ 2003 - George Odlum, West Indian politician (b. 1934)

★ 2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1927)

★ 2004 - Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)

★ 2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

★ Czech Republic - Czech Statehood Day.

★ Taiwan - Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday).

★ French Republican Calendar - Carotte (Carrot) Day, seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire.

★ Cabrillo Day - California (Cal. Gov't Code §§ 6708)

★ Freedom from Hunger Day - California ([1])

★ Ask a Stupid Question Day

Religious feasts

★ Feast day of the following RC Saints

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★ Leoba

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★ St. Wenceslas

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★ Lorenzo Ruiz

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★ Aaron of Auxerre^[1]

★ Also see September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

References

1.
★ Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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