WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. SEPTEMBER
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Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend. (29. September 1938)

World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. (29. September 1941)

The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China. (29. September 1949)

The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC. (29. September 1951)

The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. (29. September 1954)

20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. (29. September 1957)

Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts. (29. September 1960)

Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched. (29. September 1962)

The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens. (29. September 1963)

The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time. (29. September 1964)

The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced. (29. September 1966)

Oman joins the Arab League. (29. September 1971)

Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China. (29. September 1972)

WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station. (29. September 1975)

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland. (29. September 1979)

The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago. (29. September 1982)

Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. (29. September 1988)

Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed. (29. September 1990)

The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. (29. September 1990)

Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'état). (29. September 1991)

   
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