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