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Notable anniversaries in history for today: September 29
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Steve Forrest in Huntsville, Texas, USA; actor (Ben - Dallas, SWAT).
- 80th: 1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Cindy Morgan [Cichorski] in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Tron).
- 70th: 1954 - Willie Mays makes his famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460-foot drive.
- 60th: 1964 - NBC premieres the That Was the Week That Was 30-minute satire TV show.
- 60th: 1964 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon - Kings Row), dies at age 69.
- 25th: 1999 - Birth of Juan Urdangarín y de Borbón, grandson of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- 20th: 2004 - Major League Baseball announces the Montreal Expos will move to Washington D.C. in time for the 2005 season.
- 20th: 2004 - Asteroid 4179 Toutatis crosses path of Earth within 1.5 million km.
- 20th: 2004 - After taking off from Mojave, California, the White Knight carrier plane launches SpaceShipOne rocket plane, which flies into space (62 miles high) and back.
- 15th: 2009 - An 8.3-magnitude earthquake strikes due south of Samoa, causing a tsunami with waves of up to 4.5m which kills more than 190 people in several islands. Whole villages in Samoa are destroyed.
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