29 Sep 1911
- Italy declared war on Turkey.
29 Sep 1924
- Miles Browning was certified a US Navy pilot.
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29 Sep 1927
- Georg Wulf, co-founder of the Focke-Wulf aircraft company, was killed when his radically-designed tail-first Focke-Wulf Fw 19 aircraft crashed whilst making a public demonstration.
29 Sep 1931
- The Soviet Union declared neutrality in the conflict between China and Japan in northeastern China (Manchuria).
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29 Sep 1933
- Germany passed a hereditary farm law that protected farmers against potential predatory practices by financial institutions, but it also bound the farmers to the land comparable to serfs of the Medieval era.
29 Sep 1936
- The Spanish Republican destroyer Almirante Juan Fernandez was sunk by the Nationalist cruiser Canarias during a naval battle off the coast near Gibraltar.
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29 Sep 1938
- The Munich Conference between Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, and Daladier took place, during which Britain and France ceded Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany in an attempt to avoid war. The two Czechoslovakian representatives at the conference were locked in an adjacent room, not permitted to actually participating in the negotiations.
» In-depth article - Historical document written: The Munich Pact
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29 Sep 1939
- With the formal surrender of Poland, including the last 35,000 besieged troops in Modlin, the Germany and Soviet Union finished dividing up Poland.
» In-depth article - Adolf Hitler issued a repatriation order for the 86,000 ethnic Germans living in Estonia and Latvia, knowing that the Soviet Union would soon demand the Baltic States.
» In-depth article - Russia signed pacts with Estonia and Finland.
- Japanese troops reached the outskirts of Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
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29 Sep 1940
- At 1600 hours, a large group of German aircraft, mostly fighters, conducted a sweep in Kent in southern England, United Kingdom; this sweep failed to draw British fighters. Overnight, London was heavily bombed, while Liverpool was also attacked.
» In-depth article - Having dispersed Allied convoy OB-218 with previous attacks, German submarine U-32 caught up with British ship Bassa, now sailing alone, from behind and damaged her with a torpedo near the stern southwest of the island of Rockall between Britain and Iceland at 0053 hours. Bassa's crew members were observed by U-32 to have abandoned ship, but captain George Edward Anderson, the other 48 members of the crew, and the 1 navy gunner were never to be seen again.
» In-depth article - British warships from Alexandria, Egypt bombarded the coastal road in Libya and attacked Italian shipping along the Libyan coast.
- The US Marine Corps Midway Detachment of the Fleet Marine Force, under the command of Major Harold C. Roberts, arrived on Midway and began making camp and installing defenses.
29 Sep 1941
- Reinhard Heydrich was named Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
» In-depth article - The German Einsatzgruppen massacred somewhere between 50,000 and 96,000 Ukrainians, 33,771 of whom Jews, at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev. Meanwhile, Soviet resistance halted the German advance into the Crimea.
» In-depth article - The first Allied convoy for the Arctic departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland (having originated from Scotland, United Kingdom) at 1845 hours with 11 merchant ships escorted by cruiser HMS Suffolk, destroyer HMS Antelope, destroyer HMS Impulsive, and four minesweepers. By the end of the year five other convoys had followed it, landing 120,000 tons of supplies at Murmansk, Russia, including 600 tanks, 800 aircraft and 1,400 motor vehicles. It was somewhat embarrassing to the Germans that, between 29 Sep and 31 Dec 1941, all 55 vessels of these first six convoys reached their destination without loss.
- Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, British Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook, and American envoy Harriman met in Moscow, Russia to discuss lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union.
» In-depth article - Soviet submarine ShCh-319 attacked German minesweepers M151 and M203 off Liepaja, Latvia and then disappeared; she was presumed lost after striking a naval mine.
- After sundown, 10 bombers of British No. 102 Squadron were launched from RAF Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for an attack on Stettin, Germany; the anti-aircraft fire was reported to be heavy. Another group of bombers took off to attack Hamburg, Germany.
» In-depth article - Adolf Hitler ordered that Leningrad, Russia was to be wiped out by artillery and aerial bombardment. Germany could not and would not feed its population, which was of no use for the future of Germany.
» In-depth article - Light carrier Hosho was relieved the duty of being Carrier Division 3's temporary flagship.
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29 Sep 1942
- Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille, 22, the most formidable Luftwaffe fighter ace in the desert campaign with 151 RAF victims to his credit (plus seven in combat over England and the channel) was killed. The Star of Africa, as he was known, was not shot down but killed while baling out of his Messerschmitt 109 fighter when it developed engine trouble returning from a routine patrol.
- Seaplane from Japanese submarine I-25 dropped incendiary bombs on a forest in Oregon, United States.
- Three British Royal Air Force Squadrons (Nos. 71, 121 and 133) were transferred to the United States Army and redesignated as the 334, 335 and 336th Fighter Squadrons. These units had previously been established under British commanding officers with American pilots who, prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, were among the 9,000 Americans who had crossed the border into Canada to volunteer to join the Royal Canadian Air Force at the start of the war in Europe.
- HMS Activity was commissioned into service.
» In-depth article - Repair ship Akashi began repairing escort carrier Taiyo at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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29 Sep 1943
- Allied troops captured Pompeii, Italy. Meanwhile, Marshal Badoglio met with General Eisenhower aboard HMS Nelson to sign the armistice and to discuss further plans for the war.
» In-depth article - Lord Gort participated in the Italian surrender ceremony in Valetta harbor in Italy.
» In-depth article - The minesweeper USS Aspire was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease act.
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - USS Mingo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol.
» In-depth article - USS Snook damaged a Japanese craft with her deck gun.
» In-depth article - Historical document written: Armistice with Italy, Instrument of Surrender
» In-depth article - Historical document written: Letter from Commander in Chief of Allied Forces to Head of Italian Government
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29 Sep 1944
- Canadian troops captured Cape Gris Nez near Calais, France; the Germans and Canadians in the region agreed on a 24-hour truce so that civilians in the area could be evacuated. The news that the Canadians had captured the last remaining gun batteries in the Calais area was greeted with jubilation in the streets of Dover, England, United Kingdom. Since the start of the war, Dover had experienced 187 shelling attacks in addition to numerous bombing and V1 attacks.
- 15 British Lancaster bombers conducted minelaying operation in the Kattegat and off Helgoland, Germany.
- Corporal John Harper of the British York and Lancaster Regiment led his section across 300 yards of open ground under heavy fire to take enemy positions at Antwerp, Belgium. He then went on alone to clear the advance with grenades until he was killed. For this he would be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Hashirajima, Japan.
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29 Sep 1945
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the fourth time.
» In-depth article - USS Hoe arrived at New York, United States.
» In-depth article - Photos dated 29 Sep 1945
29 Sep 1954
- Miles Browning passed away of systemic lupus erythematosus at Chelsea Naval Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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29 Sep 1955
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the fifth time.
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29 Sep 1965
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of the October Revolution.
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29 Sep 1970
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the seventh time.
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29 Sep 1972
- Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka stated that the Japanese government "is keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious damage that Japan caused in the past to the Chinese people through war, and deeply reproaches itself."
29 Sep 1975
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Lenin for the eighth time.
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