On This Day: 29 September

29 September in Indian history

• 2016Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.India
• 2011The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.India

29 September in world history

• 2006Gol 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.
• 2004Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
• 1991The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
• 1988NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
• 1979Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.
• 1972Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1959A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 people.
• 1957An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
• 1941The 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.
• 1923The 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.
• 1918World 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.
• 1848The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
• 1726Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, a cantata for Michaelmas.
• 1724J. 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.
• 1714The Cossacks of the Tsardom of Russia kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto during the Great Wrath.
• 1567During the French War of Religion, Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade.

Born on 29 September

• 1989Shyima Hall, Egyptian human rights activist
• 1958Andy Straka, American author
• 1947S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (died 2016)India
• 1928Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (died 2012)India
• 1901Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
• 1725Robert Clive, English general and politician, first Governor General of the Bengal Presidency (died 1774)India

Died on 29 September

• 2020Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer, actress, and activist (born 1941)
• 2017Tom Alter, Indian actor (born 1950)India
• 2013S. N. Goenka, Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (born 1924)India
• 1937Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (born 1877)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 29 September in history?

2016: Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. 2011: The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case. 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. 2004: Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.

What happened on 29 September in Indian history?

2016: Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. 2011: The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.

Which famous people were born on 29 September?

Shyima Hall, Egyptian human rights activist (1989); Andy Straka, American author (1958); S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (died 2016) (1947); Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (died 2012) (1928).

Which day is observed on 29 September?

Inventors' Day (Argentina); Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay).