On this day: September 29

September 29: Michaelmas

Avro Ansons, having landed after collision

• 1774 – The publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther raised the 24-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to international fame.
• 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and landed safely (pictured).
• 1957 – An explosion at the Soviet nuclear reprocessing plant Mayak released 74 to 1850 PBq of radioactive material.
• 1962 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, was launched.
• 2005 – John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States.

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