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Sunday, September 29, 2013

TODAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 29TH

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, September 29th!
1197Emperor Henry VI dies in Messina, Sicily.
1399Richard II of England is deposed. His cousin, Henry of Lancaster, declares himself king under the name Henry IV.
1493Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his second voyage to the new world.
1513Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean.
1789The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1833A civil war breaks out in Spain between Carlisists, who believe Don Carlos deserves the throne, and supporters of Queen Isabella.
1850Mormon leader Brigham Young is named the first governor of the Utah Territory.
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Brigham Young
1864Union troops capture the Confederate Fort Harrison, outside Petersburg, Virginia.
1879Dissatisfied Ute Indians kill Agent Nathan Meeker and nine others in the “Meeker Massacre.”
1918Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough on the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
1932A five-day work week is established for General Motors workers.
1939Germany and the Soviet Union reach an agreement on the division of Poland.
194130,000 Jews are gunned down in Kiev when Henrich Himmler sends four strike squads to exterminate Soviet Jewish civilians and other “undesirables.”
1943Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf is published in the United States.
1950Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev repeatedly disrupts a UN General Assembly meeting with his violent outbursts over intervention in the Belgian Congo, US U2 spy planes, and arms control.
1954New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series.
1957Baseball’s New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before moving to San Francisco for the next season.
1960General Douglas MacArthur officially returns Seoul, South Korea, to President Syngman Rhee.
1962Canada launches its first satellite, Alouette 1.
1962The popular Argentinian comic strip Mafalda beings publication, in the weekly Primera Plana; focusing on a six-year-old girl (Mafalda) and her friends, it has been called the Argentinian Peanuts.
1966Chevrolet introduces the Camaro, which will become an iconic car.
1971Oman joins the Arab League.
1978Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979John Paul II becomes the first pope ever to visit Ireland.

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