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What happened in history on this day: September 29?
On September 29 in ...
- 1789 - First US Congress adjourns.
- 1789 - US War Department establishes a regular army.
- 1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral.
- 1915 - A hurricane claims 275 human deaths in the Mississippi Delta.
- 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first known billionaire.
- 1936 - Radio used for first time for a US Presidential campaign.
- 1938 - In Benld, Illinois, a garage and car are struck by a 4-pound meteorite.
- 1940 - The Golden Gate International Exposition closes.
- 1943 - US General Dwight Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice.
- 1962 - Launch of Alouette 1, first Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket).
- 1973 - Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents.
- 1981 - US Senate confirms Elizabeth Jones as US Mint chief engraver.
- 1982 - (to October 1) The Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.
- 1983 - First time US Congress invokes War Powers Act.
- 1986 - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges.
- 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with the 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7. Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1990 - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years.
- 1996 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 video game system and Super Mario 64 video game in North America. Price is US$199.95.
- 1998 - The U.S. Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the United States wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.
- 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.
- 2005 - John G. Roberts, Junior is confirmed and sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
- 2008 - Wachovia Corp, fourth largest US bank, agrees to sell most of its assets to Citigroup Inc for US$2.16 billion in a deal brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
- 2008 - The American Federal Reserve announces it will lend a further US$620 billion to other national central banks.
- 2008 - Morgan Stanley sells 21 percent of itself to Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, for US$3 billion, plus a further $6 billion of convertible preferred stock.
- 2008 - The U.S. House of Representatives votes 228-to-205 to reject a US$700 billion bailout plan for the financial industry.
- 2008 - The Dow Jones industrial average posts its largest point decline ever, 778 points, 6.98 percent of total value. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index has its worst day since the 1987 crisis with an 8.8 percent drop, or 106.59 points. The Nasdaq Composite Index loses 199.61 points, or 9.14 percent. Latin American stocks tumble 13 percent, their biggest decline in more than a decade. Gold price jumps up, and US crude oil drops $10 to close at US$96.37 per barrel. World stocks, as measured by the MSCI's world index, lose about $1.7 trillion for the day.
Births on September 29
- 1895 - Birth of Joseph Banks in Rhine, Pennsylvania, USA; parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception).
- 1903 - Birth of Ted Decorsia in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Police Chief Hegedorn - Steve Canyon).
- 1907 - Birth of Gene Autry in Tioga, Texas; cowpoke/singer/actor/California Angels owner.
- 1907 - Birth of Richard Harkness in Artesian, South Dakota, USA; newscaster (Story of the Week).
- 1920 - Birth of James Mitchell in California, USA; actor (Oklahoma, Devil's Doorway).
- 1922 - Birth of Lizabeth Scott in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Dark City, Desert Fury).
- 1924 - Birth of Steve Forrest in Huntsville, Texas, USA; actor (Ben - Dallas, SWAT).
- 1931 - Birth of James Watson Cronin; American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1931 - Birth of Eddie Barth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Shaft, Simon and Simon).
- 1932 - Birth of Robert Benton in Texas, USA; writer/director (Kramer versus Kramer).
- 1939 - Birth of Larry Linville in Ojai, California, USA; actor (Frank Burns - M*A*S*H, Blue Movie).
- 1942 - Birth of Donna Corcoran in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA; actress ("Man Without a Star").
- 1942 - Birth of Madeline Kahn in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety).
- 1948 - Birth of Bryant Gumbel in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; sportscaster/TV host (Today Show).
- 1948 - Birth of Mark Farner in Michigan, USA; guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad - "Locomotion").
- 1953 - Birth of Drake Hogestyn in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; actor (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers).
- 1954 - Birth of Cindy Morgan [Cichorski] in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Tron).
- 1960 - Birth of Leslie Graves in Silver City, New Mexico, USA; actress (Capitol).
- 1966 - Birth of Jill Whelan in Oakland, California, USA; actress (Vicki - The Love Boat).
Deaths on September 29
- 1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx, New York.
- 1975 - Casey Stengel, New York Yankees' manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale, California, at age 85.
- 1987 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company, dies in Detroit, Michigan at age 70 (born 1917).
- 1989 - A.A. Busch Junior, brewer/baseball owner (Saint Louis Cardinals), dies at age 90.
- 2021 - Death of Ravil Isyanov at age 59 of cancer; actor (NCIS: Los Angeles TV show, The Americans TV show).
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