09-29-2004, 05:33 AM
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September 29th
61 BC ~ Pompey the Great celebrated his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars.
1547 ~ Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Author.
1758 ~ Birthday of Horatio Nelson, British admiral.
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist.
1938 ~ Appeasement: Britain and France, Nazi Germany and Italy signed the Munich Agreement allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1944 ~ Soviet forces invaded Yugoslavia.
1954 ~ CERN opened for business.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis is projected to pass within 4 lunar distances of Earth.
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