September 29 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 29

• 1547Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
• 1943Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1901Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1864Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and author
• 1942Ian McShane, English actor
• 1912Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1881Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher
• 1931Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress
• 1959Jon Fosse, Norwegian author and dramatist
• 1988Kevin Durant, American basketball player

What happened on September 29

• 1724J. 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.
• 1726Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, a cantata for Michaelmas.
• 1760The Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at Benjamin Franklin's suggestion.
• 1829The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1850The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
• 1923The 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.
• 1954Willie Mays of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
• 1955The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap.
• 1963The 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.
• 1964Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
• 1991The award-winning Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast premiered while unfinished at the New York Film Festival.
• 2005John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.

Also observed on September 29

• Inventors' Day (Argentina)
• Victory of Boquerón Day (Paraguay)