September 29: Michaelmas; Day of Tasu'a (Islam, 2017)
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Avro Ansons, having landed after collision
- 1918 – World War I: At the Battle of St Quentin Canal, the British Fourth Army made the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
- 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remained locked together after colliding (pictured), and landed safely.
- 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.
- 1991 – The Haitian Army deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, eight months after the nation's first democratic elections.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1758) · Guadalupe Victoria (b. 1786) · W. H. Auden (d. 1973)
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