On This Day September 29th

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September 29th is the 272nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 93 days remain until the end of the year.


Events

1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.

1714 – The Cossacks of the Russian Empire killed about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto during the Great Wrath.

1789 – The United States Department of War first established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later known as the Met, was founded.

1885 – The first practical public electric tramway opened in Blackpool, England.

1918 – Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end World War I.

1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

2008 – The stock market crashed after the first United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act failed, leading to the Great Recession.


Birthdays

106 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (d. 48 BC)

1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor and educator (d. 1720)

1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (d. 1805)

1853 – Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (d. 1917)

1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)

1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman, founded Publix (d. 1996)

1923 – Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (d. 2013)

1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)

1943 – Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate

1966 – Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player and coach

1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player

Holidays and Observance

German Butterbrot Day

It's easy. All you need is ... bread and butter. Presto, the German "Butterbrot" sandwich, is suitable for breakfast or a snack, for kids and adults, dinner at home and to-go.

It is usually open-faced and spread with butter. It's enough of a cultural mainstay that the "Butterbrot" has its very own day of celebration every year on the last Friday of September.

Pumpernickel or rye, wheat bread with or without grains, some spelt flour or millet in the mix, or even walnuts: Germany has a staggering 3,200 varieties of bread. In 2017, according to the Statista statistics portal, about 98.5% of all households in Germany bought bread at an average of 44.1 kilos per household.

In 2014, UNESCO even recognized German bread as an intangible cultural heritage.   


Others Include

Ask a Stupid Question Day 

Broadway Musicals Day 

Confucius Day 

Happy Goose Day 

International Coffee Day 

Inventors Day 

MAGS Day 

Michaelmas 

National Attend Your Grandchild's Birthday Day 

National Coffee Day 

National Mocha Day 

National Poisoned Blackberries Day

Save the Koala Day 

Sport Purple for Platelets Day 

VFW Day 

World Heart Day


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