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Events

• 1724 (302 years ago) J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 for the feast of archangel Michael, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas.
• 1907 (119 years ago) The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
• 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation.
• 1932 (94 years ago) Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia during the Chaco War.
• 1941 (85 years ago) During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
• 1972 (54 years ago) Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.

Births

• 106 BC Pompey, Roman general and politician (died 48 BC)
• 1547 (479 years ago) Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1616)
• 1758 (268 years ago) Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (died 1805)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (died 2023)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1951 (75 years ago) Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician, President of Chile
• 1961 (65 years ago) Julia Gillard, Welsh-Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia

Deaths

• 1560 (466 years ago) Gustav I of Sweden,
• 1833 (193 years ago) Ferdinand VII of Spain,
• 1902 (124 years ago) Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (born 1840)
• 1913 (113 years ago) Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (born 1858)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Ilya Repin, Ukrainian-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1844)
• 1973 (53 years ago) W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (born 1907)
• 2010 (16 years ago) Tony Curtis, American actor (born 1925)

All 439 events, births and deaths of September 29