September 29

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining.

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61 BC - Pompey, the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars
855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope
1364 - Battle of Auray - English forces defeat French at Brittany
1789 - United States War Department first establishes regular army with strength of several hundred men.
1789 - First United States Congress adjourns
1829 - London's reorganized police force goes on duty. Later became known as Scotland Yard.
1864 - Battle of New Market Heights
1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
1918 - Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I
1938 - Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
1941 - Babi Yar massacre begins
1943 - United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
1944 - Soviet forces invade Yugoslavia
1963 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council
1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster
2004 - the asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar distances of Earth.

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