What Happened On This Day – September 29
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1994 Sinking of MS Estonia
MS Estonia, a passenger and car ferry, sank in the Baltic Sea killing more than 800 passengers. It is considered to be the worst maritime peace-time disaster of the 20th century.
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1991 Coup in Haiti
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed in a military coup. Aristide had been elected in a national election held 8 months before the coup.
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1962 First Canadian Satellite
Canada launched its first ever satellite, Alouette 1, on this day from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A joint venture between NASA and Defence Research and Development Canada, the satellite was sent to study the Earth's ionosphere.
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1954 CERN established
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, was established by 12 European governments.
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1941 Babi Yar massacre
About 33,000 Soviet Jews were killed at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev by the Nazis in a two-day massacre that started on this day.
Births On This Day,
September 29
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1961 Julia Gillard
Australian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
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1951 Michelle Bachelet
Chilean politician, 34th President of Chile
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1936 Silvio Berlusconi
Italian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
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1901 Enrico Fermi
Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1511 Michael Servetus
Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer
Deaths On This Day,
September 29
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2009 Pavel Popovich
Soviet astronaut
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1997 Roy Lichtenstein
American painter, sculptor
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1981 Bill Shankly
Scottish footballer, manager
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1973 W. H. Auden
English/American poet
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1902 Émile Zola
French author, critic