September 29, 2006

• 29 September
  All Angels Day
  Leif Erickson Day
  National Mocha Day

  

  Happy Birthday
  Miguel de Cervantes; William V, Duke of Bavaria; Horatio Nelson; Guadalupe Victoria;
  Elizabeth Gaskell; Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev; Enrico Fermi; Greer Garson;
  Gene Autry; Virginia Bruce; Trevor Howard; Stanley Kramer; Lizabeth Scott;
  Colin Dexter; Steve Forrest; Jerry Lee Lewis; Tommy Boyce; Larry Linville;
  Madeline Kahn; Ian McShane; Jill Whelan; Mohini Bhardwaj;
  Billy Goodwin; Mark Farner; Bruce Spencer; Bob Carlisle

  

  on this day in:
  1650 - Henry Robinson opened the Office of Addresses and Encounters
  1829 - London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, became the first official police department in the world
  1918 - Allied forces breached the Hindenburg Line
  1941 - The Babi Yar massacre began*
  1962 - The first Canadian satellite was launched

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  *Warning: explicit details

   

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