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Events on September 29

• 1874 The first football match in Germany is held by students of the Martino-Katharineum Gymnasium in Brunswick under the direction of Konrad Koch and August Hermann on the grounds of the “Kleinen Exerzierplatz.” This match marks the birth of football on the European continent.
• 1887 Founding of SC Germania von 1887, a predecessor club of Hamburger SV. This date is given by HSV as the club's official founding date.
• 1922 The drama Drums in the Night is staged as Bertolt Brecht's first play and premiered at the Munich Kammerspiele, directed by Otto Falckenbergs.
• 1932 During the construction of the General Electric Building, the photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is taken: eleven men, taking their lunch break on a steel beam, let their feet dangle more than 250 m above the streets of New York City.
• 1938 As part of the appeasement policy in the run-up to the Second World War, the heads of government of Great Britain, France and Italy meet with Adolf Hitler in the Führerbau at the Munich Conference to resolve the Sudeten Crisis.
• 1954 In Geneva, twelve European states found the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
• 1957 During the explosion of a tank containing radioactive waste at the Soviet Mayak nuclear facility, large quantities of radioactive substances are released. The Kyshtym accident is among the most serious nuclear accidents in history.
• 1977 Muhammad Ali defends his heavyweight boxing world title against Earnie Shavers at New York's Madison Square Garden by winning on points.
• 1990 The Unification Treaty between the two German states enters into force.
• 1995 The PlayStation is launched in Europe.
• 2000 Following its move from Bonn, the German Federal Council holds its first session in Berlin at the former seat of the Prussian House of Lords, now the Federal Council building.
• 2006 Over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a business aircraft. The latter is able to make an emergency landing, whereas the Boeing 737 crashes, killing 154 people.

Born on September 29

• 1901 Enrico Fermi, Italian nuclear physicist
• 1904 Egon Eiermann, German modernist architect and furniture designer
• 1912 Lukas Ammann, Swiss actor
• 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
• 1930 Colin Dexter, British crime novelist
• 1931 Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
• 1941 Dieter von Holtzbrinck, German publisher
• 1951 Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician
• 1951 Jutta Ditfurth, German social scientist, publicist and politician
• 1971 Torch, German hip-hop musician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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