Historical Events - September 29
1829: London Metropolitan Police established.
1916: John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire of the World.
1917: The first school of the Indian Education Society, King George High School, was opened at Dadar, Mumbai.
1938, 29th September: The Munich conference began, attended by Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.
1941: In the World War II, Nazis killed 33,771 Jews in Kyiv.
1950: The first automatic telephone answering machine was tested by the US Bell Telephone company.
1963: Birla galaxy launched in Kolkata, the first galaxy in Asia.
1981: A Delhi-Srinagar flight was hijacked by five Khalistan activists and was made to land in Lahore, Pakistan. 66 of the 117 passengers were set free on arrival in Lahore.
2008: The Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual brought the New York Stock Exchange index down 778 in a single day. The U.S. stock market was down the most.
2012: Altamas Kabir becomes the 39th Chief Justice of India.
2016: The Indian Army conducted a “Surgical Strike” against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Famous Birthdays – September 29
1786: Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico.
1899: László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen.
1901: Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning Italian-American physicist. He has been called the “architect of the nuclear age” and the “architect of the atomic bomb”.
1925: Dr. Sharad Chandra Gokhale, Indian social worker.
1928: Brajesh Mishra, the first Indian National Security Advisor.
1932: Mehmood, Indian comedian, film director, and producer.
1932: Hamid Dalwai, a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist, and Marathi language writer in Maharashtra, India.
1943: Lech Walesa, the first democratically-elected President of Poland, winner of the Nobel Prize.
1947: S. H. Kapadia, India’s 38th Chief Justice.
1951: Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president.
Death Anniversaries – September 29
855: Roman Emperor Lothar I.
1560: King Gustav I of Sweden.
1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain.
1913: Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and his suspicious death at sea.
1925: Leon Bourgeois, French police officer, and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate.
1927: Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.
1987: Henry Ford II, an American businessman.
2004: Balamani Amma, an Indian poet.
2010: Georges Charpak, Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
2013: S. N. Goenka, an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation.
2017: Tom Alter, Indian actor
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