29 September
Notable Births
Jaden McDaniels
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Choi Ye-na
b. 1999
South Korean singer (born 1999)
Sasha Lane
b. 1995
American actress
Halsey (singer)
b. 1994
American singer (born 1994)
Nicholas Galitzine
b. 1994
English actor (born 1994)
Jordan Schroeder
b. 1990
American ice hockey player (born 1990)
Kevin Durant
b. 1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Josh Farro
b. 1987
American guitarist
Inika McPherson
b. 1986
American high jumper
Calvin Johnson
b. 1985
American football player (born 1985)
Michelle Payne
b. 1985
Australian jockey (born 1985)
Per Mertesacker
b. 1984
German association football player (born 1984)
Ryan Garry
b. 1983
English footballer (born 1983)
Kelly McCreary
b. 1981
American actress
Suzanne Shaw
b. 1981
Musical artist
City and Colour
b. 1980
Canadian musician (born 1980)
Zachary Levi
b. 1980
American actor (born 1980)
Chrissy Metz
b. 1980
American actress (born 1980)
Kurt Nilsen
b. 1978
Norwegian singer (born 1978)
Heath Bell
b. 1977
American baseball pitcher (born 1977)
Notable Deaths
Patrick Murray (actor)
d. 2025
British actor (1956–2025)
Ozzie Virgil Sr.
d. 2024
Dominican baseball player and coach (1932–2024)
Akissi Kouamé
d. 2022
Ivorian army officer (1955–2022)
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
d. 2020
Emir of Kuwait from 2006 to 2020
Helen Reddy
d. 2020
Australian and American singer, actress, TV host, and activist (1941–2020)
Martin Bernheimer
d. 2019
American music critic (1936–2019)
Otis Rush
d. 2018
American blues singer and guitarist (1934–2018)
Tom Alter
d. 2017
American–Indian actor (1950–2017)
Miriam Defensor Santiago
d. 2016
Filipino politician, lawyer, and author
Hellmuth Karasek
d. 2015
German journalist and literary critic (1934–2015)
Phil Woods
d. 2015
American jazz musician (1931–2015)
Harold Agnew
d. 2013
American physicist
S. N. Goenka
d. 2013
Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (1924–2013)
Marcella Hazan
d. 2013
Italian-born American cookbook author
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
d. 2012
American businessman (1926–2012)
Malcolm Wicks
d. 2012
British politician and academic (1947–2012)
Sylvia Robinson
d. 2011
American singer and record producer (1935–2011)
Tony Curtis
d. 2010
American actor (1925–2010)
Greg Giraldo
d. 2010
American comedian (1965–2010)
Hayden Carruth
d. 2008
American poet and literary critic
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
2005
John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.
John Roberts
2004
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
4179 Toutatis
2004
Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
Burt Rutan
1992
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
Fernando Collor de Mello
1991
A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
1991 Haitian coup d'état
1990
Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
Washington National Cathedral
1990
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
Lockheed YF-22
1990
The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.
Tampere Hall
1988
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
STS-26
1981
An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
1979
Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.
Equatorial Guinea
1975
WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
WWJ-TV