Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 29

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 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1954 – Willie Mays of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
 * 1955 – The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).
 * 1957 – An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1,850 PBq of radioactive material.
 * 1963 – The University of East Anglia was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a university in the city began as early as the 19th century.
 * 1990 – The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
 * 1991 – The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
 * 2004 – Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.
 * 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.
 * Born/died: | William of Tyre |d|1186| Arnaud Amalric |d|1225| Ferdinand the Holy Prince |b|1402| Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson |b|1758| Guadalupe Victoria |b|1786| Mercator Cooper |b|1803| Annie Dove Denmark |b|1887| Jim Baxter |b|1939| W. H. Auden |d|1973| Bill Shankly |d|1981|Kevin Durant |b|1988| Valston Hancock |d|1998| Michael A. Monsoor |d|2006

September 29: Michaelmas (Western Christianity)


 * 1011 – An army of Viking pirates that had besieged the English city of Canterbury for weeks took Archbishop Ælfheah prisoner and seized power.
 * 1760 – The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1954 – Twelve countries signed a convention to establish the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.