September 29

Today in History
• 1567 - War of Religion breaks out in France, Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
• 1608 - Captain Christopher Newport arrives in Virginia, with supplies from England
• 1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
• 1789 - US War Department establishes a regular army
• 1815 - Dutch King William I forms the Dutch Order of the Lion
• 1849 - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill, New York (New Haven Railroad)
• 1853 - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
• 1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish–American War erected, in Monroeville, Ohio


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Michaelmas
• Mid-Autumn Festival
• National Silent Movie Day
• Pitru Paksha
• Sukkot
• VFW Day
• World Heart Day
• World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

Birthdays
• 106-48 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman political and military leader
• 1240 - Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland
• 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England
• 1620 - Jean Louis d'Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik (1688-94)
• 1636 - Thomas Tenison, English Archbishop of Canterbury (1694-1715)
• 1725 - Robert Clive, English explorer and founder (British Empire in India)
• 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral and hero of Trafalgar
• 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican independence leader, 1st President of Mexico