Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 29
This is a list of selected September 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 61 BC – In Rome, Pompey the Great 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. | Article already on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 28, now tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1364 – English forces defeated the French at the Battle of Auray in the French town of Auray, the decisive confrontation of the Breton War of Succession, a part of the Hundred Years' War. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1885 – The Blackpool tramway, one of the first practical electric tramways in the world, opened in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. | Blackpool tramway has unreferenced section, tram has multiple issues |
| 1907 – Construction work began on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and then completed on the same day 83 years later. | refimprove section |
| 1938 – At a conference in Munich, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier reached a settlement, signing it at about 1:30 am the next day, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany. | unreferenced section |
| 1954 – Willie Mays of Major League Baseball's New York Giants made one of the most famous defensive plays in baseball history, known as "The Catch". | needs more footnotes |
| 1964 – Mafalda, a comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina. | unreferenced section |
| 1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, breaking official ties with the Republic of China. | Still a stub |
| 1982 – A 12-year-old girl in the Chicago area was killed by cyanide-laced Tylenol, the first of seven people over the next few days. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1941 – The Holocaust: German Nazis aided by their collaborators began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed.
- 1954 – Twelve countries signed a convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
- 2005 – John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States.
September 29: First day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) (2011, 5772 AM); Michaelmas
- 1829 – The Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard pictured) of Greater London, originally headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded.
- 1957 – An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1850 PBq of radioactive material.
- 1962 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, was launched.
- 1963 – The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing such a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
- 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.