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SEPTEMBER 29, 1923
The Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Mandatory Palestine under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under King Abdullah I.
The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan – which had Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1991
The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that produces animated feature films and short Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1011
An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner and seized power.
The siege of Canterbury was a major Viking raid on the city of Canterbury that occurred between 8 and 29 September 1011, Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1724
J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1964
Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
Mafalda is an Argentine comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Quino. The strip features a six-year-old girl named Mafalda, who reflects Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1918
World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Brazil, killing 154 people and triggering a national aviation crisis.
On 29 September 2006, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, a Boeing 737-800 on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1954
Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1957
An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
Nuclear reprocessing is the chemical separation of fission products and actinides from spent nuclear fuel. Originally, reprocessing was used solely to extract Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1760
The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.
The Williamsburg Bray School was a school for free and enslaved Black children founded in 1760 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Opened at Benjamin Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1963
The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a 360-acre (150-hectare) campus Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1955
The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).
Legislative elections were held in Indonesia on 29 September 1955 to elect the 257 members of the House of Representatives. The election Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1941
The Holocaust: Nazi forces, aided by Ukrainian collaborators, began a massacre of Jews in a ravine in Kyiv, killing more than 30,000 civilians in two days and thousands more in the following months.
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.
Fort Tanjong Katong, which stood from 1879 to 1901, was one of the oldest military forts built by the former British colonial Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1990
The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
The Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics YF-22 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF). Read More
SEPTEMBER 29, 1833
The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.
The Spanish American wars of independence took place across the Spanish Empire during the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres Read More

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