Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 29
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- 61 BC: In Rome, Pompey the Great (pictured) celebrated triumphs over pirates in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and in the war against king Mithridates VI of Pontus in Asia Minor, with enormous parades of spoils, prisoners, army and banners depicting battle scenes. It was also his 45th birthday.
- 1829: The first official police force in the world, the Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met or Scotland Yard, was founded by Robert Peel.
- 1938: The Munich Agreement was signed, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede Sudetenland to Germany.
- 1941: The Babi Yar massacre began in Kiev, Ukraine.
- 1964: Mafalda, a comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
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