Today in History
29 September
238 births · 141 deaths · 55 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1977
Heath Bell
American baseball pitcher (born 1977)
Notable Births
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Jaden McDaniels
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Heath Bell
b. 1977
American baseball pitcher (born 1977)
Julia Gillard
b. 1961
Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013
Jon Fosse
b. 1959
Norwegian author and dramatist (born 1959)
Brajesh Mishra
b. 1928
Indian Diplomat and First National Security Advisor of India
László Bíró
b. 1899
Hungarian-Argentine inventor (1899–1985)
Lilias Armstrong
b. 1882
British phonetician (1882–1937)
William Russell, Lord Russell
b. 1639
English politician (1639–1683)
Notable Deaths
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Ozzie Virgil Sr.
d. 2024
Dominican baseball player and coach (1932–2024)
Gussie Busch
d. 1989
American businessman (1899–1989)
Bill Shankly
d. 1981
Scottish footballer and manager (1913–1981)
Vladimir Dimitrov
d. 1960
Bulgarian painter and teacher
Ernst Reuter
d. 1953
German mayor of West Berlin (1889–1953)
Rosa Olitzka
d. 1949
German opera singer (1873–1949)
Douglas Crawford McMurtrie
d. 1944
American typeface designer (1888–1944)
Rudolf Diesel
d. 1913
German inventor and engineer (1858–1913)
On This Day in History
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2019
Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
2019 Afghan presidential election
2016
Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
2016 Uri attack
2013
Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
Gujba college massacre
2011
The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
Dalit
2009
The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills over 189 and injures hundreds.
2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami
2008
The stock market crashes with the Dow Jones dropping a then record 778 points after the United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails during the beginning stages of the Great Recession.
Stock market crash
2007
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
Calder Hall nuclear power station
2006
A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907