0235 St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope

0855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0855 The Holy Roman Emperor Lothair dies September 29 at age 60 after dividing his lands between his three sons and is succeeded as emperor by his son of 33, who will reign until 875 as Louis II

1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning the wells

1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany

1650 Henry Robinson opens first marriage bureau (England)

1785 Chaidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland

1789 First congress adjourns

1789 US War Dept established a regular army

1793 Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine

1849 First passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)

1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348

1859 Great auroral display in US

1863 The opera "Pescatori di Perle", more properly known as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles", is produced (Paris)

1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater

1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral

1915 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta

1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line

1918 Australians storm the Hindenburg Line, France

1918 Capt. John McGregor (2nd Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

1918 Captain GH Wilkins, official AIF photographer, rallies United States troops at the battle of the Hindenburg Line, while taking photographs For this action he is awarded a bar to his Military Cross, becoming the only Australian official photographer to be decorated for bravery in the field

1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public

1927 Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri

1930 Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute

1930 The final section of the 3'6" gauge railway on Prince Edward Island is converted to standard gauge. The conversion work on the island had started in 1919.

1936 Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign

1938 Munich Conference, Chamberlain of Britain and Daladier of France agree to German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia.

1940 First US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware

1941 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6

1943 Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice

1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia

1951 First color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)

1951 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter

1953 Milton Berle Show premiers

1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)

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