September 29th, 1886

Born on September 29th, 1886

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 51,000 days old!

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What happened on September 29th?

September 29th, 1964

Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.

September 29th, 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.

September 29th, 2004

Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.

September 29th, 1991

The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.

September 29th, 1990

The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.

September 29th, 1963

The University of East Anglia (coat of arms featured) was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.

September 29th, 1957

An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.

September 29th, 1955

The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).

September 29th, 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.

September 29th, 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.

September 29th, 1940

During a Royal Australian Air Force training exercise over Brocklesby, two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air (pictured); the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.

September 29th, 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.

September 29th, 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.

September 29th, 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.

September 29th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 29th

Same year
Born in 1886

67

Willi Worpitzky

German footballer-manager (1886-1953)

*August 25th, 1886, Pankow †October 10th, 1953, Berlin

64

Al Jolson

Lithuanian-born American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886–1950)

*May 26th, 1886, Seredžius †October 23rd, 1950, San Francisco

87

David Ben-Gurion

Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1886–1973)

*October 16th, 1886, Płońsk †December 1st, 1973, Ramat Gan

93

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)

*March 1st, 1886, Pöchlarn †February 22nd, 1980, Montreux

40

Jenő Károly

Hungarian association football player and manager (1886-1926)

*January 15th, 1886, Kaposvár †July 28th, 1926, Turin

91

Manne Siegbahn

Swedish physicist (1886-1978)

*December 3rd, 1886, Örebro †September 26th, 1978, Engelbrekt church parish

49

Marthe Hanau

French fraudster

*January 10th, 1886, Paris †July 14th, 1935, Fresnes

97

Clemens Holzmeister

Austrian architect and stage designer (1886–1983)

*March 27th, 1886, Fulpmes †June 12th, 1983, Hallein

61

August Meyszner

Austrian Gendarmerie officer and right-wing politician (1886-1947)

*January 1st, 1886, Graz †January 24th, 1947, Belgrade

29

Harold Chapin

British writer

*February 15th, 1886, Brooklyn †September 26th, 1915, Loos-en-Gohelle

54

Alfonso XIII

King of Spain from 1886 to 1931

*May 17th, 1886, Madrid †February 28th, 1941, Villanueva Mesía

29

Jean Angeli

French writer

*January 3rd, 1886, Ambert †June 11th, 1915, Hébuterne

83

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

German architect (1886–1969)

*March 27th, 1886, Aachen †August 17th, 1969, Chicago

81

John Davidson

Actor (1886-1968)

*December 25th, 1886, New York City †January 16th, 1968, Los Angeles

57

Marc Bloch

French historian (1886–1944)

*July 6th, 1886, 2nd arrondissement of Lyon †June 16th, 1944, Saint-Didier-de-Formans

47

Eric Powell

British rower and artist (1886-1933)

*May 6th, 1886, Edmonton †August 17th, 1933, Piz Roseg

90

Archibald Hill

English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)

*September 26th, 1886, Bristol †June 3rd, 1977, Cambridge

64

Hermann Broch

Austrian writer (1886-1951)

*November 1st, 1886, Vienna †May 30th, 1951, New Haven

89

Zhu De

Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976)

*December 1st, 1886, Zhu De's Former Residence †July 6th, 1976, Beijing

86

Edward Calvin Kendall

American chemist (1886-1972)

*March 8th, 1886, South Norwalk †May 4th, 1972, Princeton

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1886 is a normal year and no leap year.

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