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.

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  Alouette 1 before launch
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  Goethe c. 1775
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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  Willie Mays
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  New Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters
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  Burhanuddin Harahap
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  Interlocked planes after the Brocklesby mid-air collision

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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.	unreferenced section
1714 – During the Russian occupation of Finland, Cossacks killed about 800 inhabitants of the island of Hailuoto with axes.	Needs expansion, hyperbolic tone
1829 – The Metropolitan Police (headquarters pictured) of Greater London, originally headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded.	History needs expansion
1774 – The publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther raised the 24-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to international fame.	refimprove section
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: lots of CN tags (10)
1907 – Construction work began on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and then completed on the same day 83 years later.	outdated, refimprove section
1954 – Twelve countries signed a convention to establish the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.	Unreferenced section
1962 – Alouette I (pictured), Canada's first satellite, and the first constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, was launched.	Substandard referencing
1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan established diplomatic relations with China, breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).	refimprove section
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 section
1991 – The Haitian Army deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, eight months after the nation's first democratic elections.	lots of CN tags (8)
Elizabeth Gaskell |b|1810|	Lots of unsourced statements
2005 – John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1011 – An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner and seized power.
• 1760 – The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.
• 1833 – The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.
• 1923 – The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under King Abdullah I.
• 1940 – During a Royal Australian Air Force training exercise over Brocklesby, two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air (pictured); the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.
• 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi forces, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, began a massacre of Jews in a ravine in Kyiv, killing more than 30,000 civilians in two days and thousands more in the following months.
• 1955 – The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).
• 1957 – An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
• 1963 – The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
• 1990 – The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
• 1991 – The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
• 2006 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Brazil, killing 154 people and triggering a national aviation crisis.
• Born/died: | William of Tyre |d|1186| Arnaud Amalric |d|1225| Ferdinand the Holy Prince |b|1402| René Goupil|d|1642| Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson |b|1758| Guadalupe Victoria |b|1786| Mercator Cooper |b|1803| Karl Freiherr Haus von Hausen|b|1823| Edward Pulsford |bd|1844; 1919| Lilias Armstrong |b|1882| Annie Dove Denmark |b|1887| Marcel Lihau |b|1931| Jim Baxter |b|1939| W. H. Auden |d|1973| Bill Shankly |d|1981|Kevin Durant |b|1988| Li Qiang|d|1996| Valston Hancock |d|1998| Michael A. Monsoor |d|2006

September 29: Michaelmas (Western Christianity)

Willie Mays

• 1724 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
• 1954 – Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
• 1964 – Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
• 2004 – Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.

• Karl Freiherr Haus von Hausen (b. 1823)
• Edward Pulsford (b. 1844; d. 1919)
• Annie Dove Denmark (b. 1887)
• Valston Hancock (d. 1998)

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• September 29
• September 30