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What happened on 29 September?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 1901 Born: Enrico Fermi Italian-American physicist; first nuclear reactor; Manhattan Project.
  2. 1547 Born: Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, playwright and poet; his Don Quixote is widely regarded as the first modern novel.
  3. 1518 Born: Tintoretto Venetian Mannerist painter; vast canvases at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco.
  4. 1941 Babi Yar massacre Nazi Einsatzgruppen kill 33,771 Jews in two days in a ravine outside Kyiv; one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust.
  5. 2010 Aadhaar biometric ID system launched World's largest biometric identity programme — over a billion enrolled.
  6. 1918 Holst's The Planets Orchestral suite associating each known planet with a god.
  7. 2016 Surgical strikes 2016 (LoC) India conducts cross-LoC strikes after Uri attack.
  8. 1918 Bulgaria signs armistice First Central Power to leave the war.
  9. 1911 Italo-Turkish War Italy seizes Libya and the Dodecanese from Ottomans; first use of aircraft in war; weakens Ottoman position before the Balkan Wars.
  10. 1267 Treaty of Montgomery Henry III recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales — the first and only time an English crown formally acknowledged a native Prince of Wales.
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