Historical Events on September 29.

1. World Heart Day

2. 1829, 29th September: London Metropolitan Police established.

3. 1916, 29th September: John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire of the World.

4. 1917, 29th September: The first school of the Indian Education Society, King George High School, was opened at Dadar, Mumbai.

5. 1938, 29th September: The Munich conference began, attended by Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini. 

6. 1941, 29th September: In the World War II, Nazis killed 33,771 Jews in Kyiv.

7. 1950, 29th September: The first automatic telephone answering machine was tested by the US Bell Telephone company.

8. 1963, 29th September: Birla galaxy launched in Kolkata, the first galaxy in Asia.

9. 1981, 29th September: 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.

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11. 2008, 29th September: 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.

12. 2012, 29th September: Altamas Kabir becomes the 39th Chief Justice of India.

13. 2016, 29th September: The Indian Army conducted a “Surgical Strike” against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 29.

1. 1786: Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico.

2. 1899: László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen. 

3. 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”.

4. 1925: Dr. Sharad Chandra Gokhale, Indian social worker.

5. 1928: Brajesh Mishra, the first Indian National Security Advisor.

6. 1932: Mehmood, Indian comedian, film director, and producer.

7. 1932: Hamid Dalwai, a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist, and Marathi language writer in Maharashtra, India.

8. 1943: Lech Walesa, the first democratically-elected President of Poland, winner of the Nobel Prize.

9. 1947: S. H. Kapadia, India’s 38th Chief Justice.

10. 1951: Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 29.

1. 855: Roman Emperor Lothar I.   

2. 1560: King Gustav I of Sweden.

3. 1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain.

4. 1913: Rudolf Diesel, a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine, and his suspicious death at sea.

5. 1925: Leon Bourgeois, French police officer, and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate. 

6. 1927: Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.

7. 1987: Henry Ford II, an American businessman.

8. 2004:  Balamani Amma, an Indian poet.

9. 2010: Georges Charpak, Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.

10. 2013: S. N. Goenka, an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation.

11. 2017: Tom Alter, Indian actor