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61Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

1913Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game

1916John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.

1920Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54

1927Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games

19401st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware

1941Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title

1952Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance

1954"Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol

1954"Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres

1954Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive

1956"I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87

1956Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season

1957Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"

1961Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester

1962JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi

1963"Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV

1963Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th HRs

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational

1968Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational

1968Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown

1976Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest

1977James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked

1979"Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18

1979Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland

1983Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon

1984Elizabeth Taylor undergoes rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic

1985"Amazing Stories" by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV

1986Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)

1987"Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1

1989Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)

1990"Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book

1991Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic

1992Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)

19941st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)

1995OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury

1996Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas)

1996Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34

On This Day In History
Date Event
Sep 29, 522 BC
Darius I of Persia kills Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. 
Sep 29, 480 BC
Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I. 
Sep 29, 61 BC
Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. 
Sep 29, 219
Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome 
Sep 29, 235
St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
Sep 29, 440
Pope Leo I the Great, installed 
Sep 29, 855
Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
Sep 29, 1227
Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II 
Sep 29, 1349
People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells 
Sep 29, 1364
Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French in Brittany 
Sep 29, 1521
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade 
Sep 29, 1564
Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester 
Sep 29, 1567
War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX 
Sep 29, 1567
At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason. 
Sep 29, 1608
Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists 
Sep 29, 1650
2nd Fronde-uprising ends 
Sep 29, 1650
Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England) 
Sep 29, 1678
France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty 
Sep 29, 1785
Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Kraków Poland 
Sep 29, 1789
1st congress adjourns 
Sep 29, 1789
US War Dept established a regular army 
Sep 29, 1793
Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine 
Sep 29, 1815
King Willem I forms Dutch Order of the Lion 
Sep 29, 1829
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers". 
Sep 29, 1848
Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence. 
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