29 September

855      Lothair I (died), Roman emperor (born 795)

1227    Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.

1511     Michael Servetus (born), Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (died 1553)

1547    Miguel de Cervantes (born), Spanish author, poet, and playwright (died 1616)

1561    Adriaan van Roomen (born), Flemish mathematician (died 1615)

1567    At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.

1571     Caravaggio (born), Italian painter (died 1610)

1703    François Boucher (born), French painter (died 1770)

1758    Horatio Nelson (born), 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (died 1805)

1766    Charlotte (born), Princess Royal of England (died 1828)

1789    The 1st United States Congress adjourns.

1789    The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1803   Jacques Charles François Sturm (born), French mathematician (died 1850)

1803   Mercator Cooper (born), American captain (died 1872)

1829   The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1833   Ferdinand VII of Spain (died) (born 1784)

1842   Louis J. Weichmann (born), American clerk, witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (died 1902)

1881    Ludwig von Mises (born), Austrian-American economist, sociologist and philosopher (died 1973)

1885   The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

1887   Bernhard von Langenbeck (died), German surgeon (born 1810)

1895    Joseph Banks Rhine (born), American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1980)

1898   Trofim Lysenko (born), Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (died 1976)

1899   László Bíró (born), Hungarian-Argentinian inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (died 1985)

1901    Enrico Fermi (born), Italian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)

1902   Émile Zola (died), French journalist, author, and playwright (born 1840)

1904   Greer Garson (born), English-American actress and singer (died 1996)

1907    Gene Autry (born), American singer and actor (died 1998)

1907    George W. Jenkins (born), American businessman, founded Publix (died 1996)

1907    The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1912    Michelangelo Antonioni (born), Italian director and screenwriter (died 2007)

1913    Rudolf Diesel (died), German engineer, invented the Diesel Engine (born 1858)

1913    Stanley Kramer (born), American director and producer (died 2001)

1913    Trevor Howard (born), English actor (died 1988)

1921    Franny Beecher (born), American guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (died 2014)

1923    Stan Berenstain (born), American author and illustrator (died 2005)

1927    Willem Einthoven (died), Indonesian-Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)

1931    Anita Ekberg (born), Swedish model and actress

1934    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born), Hungarian-American psychologist and educator

1935    Jerry Lee Lewis (born), American singer-songwriter and pianist

1936    Silvio Berlusconi (born), Italian businessman and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy

1939    Larry Linville (born), American actor (died 2000)

1942    Ian McShane (born), English actor, director, and producer

1942    Jean-Luc Ponty (born), French violinist and composer (Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever)

1942    Madeline Kahn (born), American actress and singer (died 1999)

1943    Lech Wałęsa (born), Polish politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate

1944    Mike Post (born), American composer

1946    Ian Wallace (born), English drummer (King Crimson and Crimson Jazz Trio) (died 2007)

1948   Mark Farner (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grand Funk Railroad and Terry Knight and the Pack)

1948   Mike Pinera (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Cactus, and Ramatam)

1949    The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.

1951    The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

1954    The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1955    Ken Weatherwax (born), American actor

1956    Sebastian Coe (born), English sprinter and politician

1957    20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

1957    Andrew Dice Clay (born), American comedian and actor

1960   Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.

1962    Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.

1964    The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.

1966    The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1967    Carson McCullers (died), American author (born 1917)

1971    Oman joins the Arab League.

1972    Oliver Gavin (born), English race car driver

1973    W. H. Auden (died), English-American poet (born 1907)

1975    Casey Stengel (died), American baseball player and manager (born 1890)

1979    Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland.

1982   The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.

1987    Henry Ford II (died), American businessman (born 1917)

1988   Charles Addams (died), American cartoonist (born 1912)

1988   Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

1990   Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.

1990   The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

2001   Nguyen Van Thieu (died), Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (born 1923)

2007   Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

2008  Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

2010   Tony Curtis (died), American actor, singer, and producer (born 1925)

2012   Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (died), American publisher (born 1926)

2013   Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.

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Interests include biological anthropology, evolution, social behavior, and human behavior. Conducted field research in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya and on Angaur, Palau, Micronesia, as well as research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.
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