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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_29" title="September 29">September 29</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelmas" title="Michaelmas">Michaelmas</a></b> (Western Christianity)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1011" title="1011">1011</a> – An army of Viking pirates that had <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Canterbury" title="Siege of Canterbury">besieged the English city of Canterbury</a></b> for weeks took <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfheah_of_Canterbury" title="Ælfheah of Canterbury">Archbishop Ælfheah</a></b> prisoner and seized power.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1760" title="1760">1760</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg_Bray_School" title="Williamsburg Bray School">Williamsburg Bray School</a></b>, the oldest-surviving school building in the U.S. dedicated to educating Black children, opened at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>'s suggestion.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1833" title="1833">1833</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">Spanish American wars of independence</a></b> ended with the death of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" title="Ferdinand VII of Spain">King Ferdinand VII</a>, with what had once been the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> disintegrating into independent Latin American states.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940" title="1940">1940</a> – During a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force" title="Royal Australian Air Force">Royal Australian Air Force</a> training exercise over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocklesby,_New_South_Wales" title="Brocklesby, New South Wales">Brocklesby</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Brocklesby_mid-air_collision" title="1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision">two planes collided and interlocked in mid-air</a></b>; the pilot of the upper plane was able to land safely using the lower plane's engines.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954" title="1954">1954</a> – Twelve countries signed a convention to establish the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN" title="CERN">European Organization for Nuclear Research</a></b> (CERN), which manages the world's largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics" title="Particle physics">particle physics</a> laboratory.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goupil" title="René Goupil">René Goupil</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1642); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilias_Armstrong" title="Lilias Armstrong">Lilias Armstrong</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1882); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lihau" title="Marcel Lihau">Marcel Lihau</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1931); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Qiang_(revolutionary)" title="Li Qiang (revolutionary)">Li Qiang</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1996)</p>