It happened on this day, September 29
Events:
1908 – The International Conference for Labor Protection, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, decides to prohibit night work for children under 14 years of age.
1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – Bulgaria surrenders to Allied forces during World War I.
1923 – Start of the British mandate over Palestine.
1939 – Poland surrenders to the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
1940 – The Babi Yar massacre took place in Ukraine and lasted two days.
1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev disrupts a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly when he repeatedly explodes in anger and repeatedly slams the table with both hands.
1962 – Ahmed Ben Bella becomes Prime Minister of the first Algerian government after independence.
1969 – Creation of the family of writers in Bahrain.
1971 – The Sultanate of Oman joins the League of Arab States.
1988 – The International Court of Justice issues a ruling declaring Egypt's right to Taba.
✴️ Presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to United Nations peacekeeping forces.
✴️ The space shuttle Discovery takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying five astronauts for a 4-day mission.
2002 – Launch of the 14th Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with the participation of 44 countries.
2015 – The Taliban movement takes control of the city of Kunduz, capital of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan.
✴️ NASA confirms the presence of “liquid of life” (water) under the frozen surface of Mars.
2018 – An earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, triggering a tsunami that killed at least 830 people and injured more than 1,000 others.
2020 – Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah takes power in Kuwait, succeeding Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
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Births:
106 BC. – Pompey the Great, Roman military leader.
828 – Ali bin Muhammad Al-Hadi, the tenth imam among the Twelver Shiite imami.
1518 – Tintoretto, Italian painter.
1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer.
1571 – Caravaggio, Italian painter.
1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist.
1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer.
1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist.
1899 – Ladislao Joseph Perrault, Argentine inventor of Hungarian origin.
1901 – Enrico Fermi, American physicist of Italian origin who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1938.
1907 – Gene Autry, American singer.
1920 – Peter Mitchell, British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1978.
1931 – James Cronin, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980.
1932 – Michel Murr, Lebanese politician.
1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, owner and president of AC Milan, and former Italian Prime Minister.
1941 – John Brower Minoch, the heaviest person ever.
1942 – Mir Hossein Mousavi, former Iranian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1943 – Lech Walesa, President of Poland and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
1949 – Othman Jeneh, former Tunisian footballer and president of the Club de l'Étoile Sportive du Sahel for thirteen years.
1951 – Michelle Pacelli, president of Chile.
1959 – Shatha Salem, Iraqi actress.
1961 – Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia.
1966 – Bujar Nishani, President of the Republic of Albania
1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer.
1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer.
1977 – Alaa Shaker, Iraqi actress.
1980 – Fahad Al-Hunaidi, Kuwaiti footballer.
** Zachary Levi, American actor.
1981 – Ali Kankouni, Kuwaiti footballer.
1982 – Nawaf Al-Najm, Kuwaiti actor.
1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer.
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Death:
1560 – King Gustav I, king of Sweden.
1825 – Daniel Shays, American rebel.
1839 – Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist and geologist.
1902 – Emile Zola, French writer.
1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920.
1927 – Film by Einthoven, Dutch doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1924.
1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football player and manager.
1986 – Ammar Sumaisim, Jaafari jurist and Iraqi Sharia judge.
1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer.
1997 – Ali Morad Farashbandi, Iranian journalist, writer and historian.
2008 – Youssef Sabry Abu Talib, former Egyptian Minister of Defense.
2010 – Tony Curtis, American actor.
** Georges Czarpac, French-Polish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
2012 – Prince Hathloul bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, president of the Saudi club Al Hilal.
** Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and presenter.
2013 – Kawthar Al-Assal, Egyptian actress and writer.
2015 – Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, special advisor to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
2017 – Abu Tahseen Al-Salhi, an Iraqi soldier nicknamed the Islamic State sniper.
2018 – Ibrahim Al-Jaradi, Syrian poet.
2019 – Abdulaziz Al-Fagham, the personal bodyguard of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
** Sami Abdel Hamid, Iraqi actor and director.
2020 – Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaleq, an Egyptian-Kuwaiti Muslim scholar.
** Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, fifteenth emir of the State of Kuwait and fifth after independence from the United Kingdom.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Inventors’ Day in Argentina.
⬅️ World Heart Day.
