09-28-2013, 08:52 PM
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September 29th
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1957 ~ The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched.
1973 ~ Death of W. H. Auden, English poet.
1975 ~ Birthday of Ava Vincent, Porn Actress.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth.
2008 ~ The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
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