The 29t o September is the 272t day o the year (273t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 93 days bidin.
1015 : St. Michael's Kirk in Hildesheim
2009 : Yirdquauk damage in American Samoa
1015 - St. Michael's Kirk in Hildesheim , present-day Lawer Saxony , Germany , is consecratit. It is nou a UNESCO Warld Heritage site.
1227 - Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor is excommunicatit frae the Roman Catholic Kirk bi Pape Gregory IX for his refusal tae tak pairt in the Crusades.
1829 - Lunnon 's Metropolitan Polis is foondit bi Robert Peel .
1907 - The foondaition stane for Washington, D.C. 's Naitional Cathedral is laid.
1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire .
1923 - The Breetish mandate for Palestine taks effect.
1939 - Division o Poland atween Germany an the Soviet Union .
1941 - Holocaust : The Babi Yar massacre is committit in present-day Ukraine ; 33,000 Jews are murthert.
1944 - Warld War II : Soviet Union forces enter Yugoslavie .
1954 - CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is foondit.
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev disrupts a Unitit Naitions meetin wi ootbursts.
1971 - Oman jyns the Arab League .
1988 - NASA resumes Space Shuttle missions, efter the Challenger disaster in 1986 .
1990 - Washington, D.C. 's Naitional Cathedral is completit.
2009 - A strong yirdquauk strikes Samoa , also affectin American Samoa an Tonga , efter tsunamis are caused.
2014 - Ashraf Ghani becomes Preses o Afghanistan .
2017 - Henry Bolton becomes leader o the UK Unthirldom Pairty .
Miguel de Cervantes
Enrico Fermi
Michelle Bachelet
106 BC - Pompey , Roman consul (d. 48 BC )
1240 - Margaret o Ingland , Queen Consort o Scots (d. 1275 )
1511 - Michael Servetus , Spaingie theologian, medicinar, cartografer an Renaissance humanist (d. 1563 )
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes , Spaingie writer (d. 1616 )
1571 - Caravaggio , Italian penter (d. 1610 )
1574 - Ludovic Stewart, 2nt Duke o Lennox , Scots nobleman an politeecian (d. 1624 )
1758 - Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson , Inglis admiral (d. 1805 )
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno , Spaingie writer an philosopher (d. 1936 )
1881 - Ludwig von Mises , Austrick economist an sociologist (d. 1973 )
1883 - David Taylor , Scots fitbawer (d. 1949 )
1901 - Enrico Fermi , Italian pheesicist (d. 1954 )
1904 - Greer Garson , Inglis-American actress (d. 1996 )
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian film director (d. 2007 )
1931 - Anita Ekberg , Swadish actress (d. 2015 )
1931 - James Cronin , American nuclear pheesicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2016 )
1932 - Rainer Weiss , German-American pheesicist, jynt 2017 Nobel laureate
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi , Italian politeecian
1938 - Wim Kok , Dutch politeecian (d. 2018 )
1939 - Jim Baxter , Scots fitbawer (d. 2001 )
1939 - Rhodri Morgan , Welsh politeecian, 2nt First Meenister o Wales (d. 2017 )
1942 - Ian McShane , Inglis actor
1943 - Lech Walesa , umwhile Preses o Poland , Nobel laureate
1944 - Jim Whyte , Scots fitbawer
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann , German clarinetist
1951 - Michelle Bachelet , umwhile Preses o Chile
1956 - Sebastian Coe , Inglis athlete an politeecian
1961 - Julia Gillard , Australian politeecian, 27t Prime Meenister o Australie
1962 - Nicky Walker , Scots fitbawer
1966 - Bujar Nishani , umwhile Preses o Albanie
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian fitbawer
1984 - Per Mertesacker , German fitbawer
1988 - Kevin Durant , American basketbaw player
1994 - Halsey , American sangster an sangwriter
855 - Lothair I , Roman Emperor (b. 715 )
1560 - Gustav I o Swaden (b. 1494 )
1829 - Anne Bannerman , Scots poet (b. 1765 )
1830 - John Murray, 4t Duke o Atholl , Scots peer (b. 1755 )
1833 - Ferdinand VII o Spain (b. 1784 )
1902 - Emile Zola , French writer (b. 1840 )
1913 - Rudolf Diesel , German ingineer (b. 1858 )
1927 - Willem Einthoven , Dutch medicinar (b. 1860 )
1930 - Ilya Repin , Roushie penter (b. 1844 )
1932 - Henry Innes-Ker, 8t Duke o Roxburghe , Scots peer (b. 1876 )
1950 - Robert Clark , Scots zoologist (b. 1882 )
1952 - William Thomas Calman , Scots zoologist (b. 1871 )
1960 - John Baillie , Scots theologian (b. 1886 )
1973 - W. H. Auden , Inglis poet (b. 1907 )
1981 - Bill Shankly , Scots fitbaw manager (b. 1913 )
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein , American airtist (b. 1923 )
2007 - Lois Maxwell , Canadian actress (b. 1927 )
2010 - Georges Charpak , Pols-born pheesicist (b. 1924 )
2010 - Tony Curtis , American actor (b. 1925 )
2012 - Hebe Camargo , Brazilian telly presenter, sangster an actress (b. 1929 )
2012 - Neil Smith , Scots geografer (b. 1954 )
2014 - Luis Nishizawa , Mexican penter (b. 1918 )
St. Michael