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Alouette 1 before launch
Goethe c. 1775
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Willie Mays
New Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters
Burhanuddin Harahap- Willie Mays
Interlocked planes after the Brocklesby mid-air collision
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| 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 | outdated, refimprove section |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) |
| Arnaud Amalric |d|1225| | Deathday not in article. |
| Elizabeth Gaskell |b|1810| | Lots of unsourced statements |
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- 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).
- 1990 – The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
- 2005 – John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.
- 1011 – An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner and seized power.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Born/died: | 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| Lilias Armstrong |b|1882| Annie Dove Denmark |b|1887| Greer Garson |b|1904| Henry Bedson |b|1929| Marcel Lihau |b|1931| Jim Baxter |b|1939| Michelle Bachelet |b|1951| Julia Gillard |b|1961| Russell Peters |b|1970| W. H. Auden |d|1973| Andriy Shevchenko |b|1976| Francisco Macías Nguema |d|1979| Bill Shankly |d|1981| Kevin Durant |b|1988| Nicholas Galitzine |b|1994| Li Qiang|d|1996| Valston Hancock |d|1998| Michael A. Monsoor |d|2006|
September 29: Michaelmas (Western Christianity)
University of East Anglia coat of arms
- 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.
- 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 (coat of arms featured) was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
- 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.
- William of Tyre (d. 1186)
- Ferdinand the Holy Prince (b. 1402)
- Choi Ye-na (b. 1999)
- Miriam Defensor Santiago (d. 2016)
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