On September 29
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly September 29 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Sep 26 – Oct 2)
On 1 October 331 BCE, Alexander the Great decisively defeated Darius III on the plain of Gaugamela, near modern Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
On 27 September 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway in County Durham opened as the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives. On opening day George Stephenson's locomotive 'Locomotion No.
On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China from the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, with Zhou Enlai as premier.
From late September to mid-October 1529 Suleiman the Magnificent besieged Vienna, the Habsburg capital, with an army of over 100,000. The roughly 21,000 defenders under Niklas Graf Salm held the city behind hastily strengthened walls.
The Catholic Church mounted a sustained response to the Reformation through institutional renewal and doctrinal clarification.
Published on 27 September 1962, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring documented the ecological damage caused by the indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides, especially DDT, including harm to bird populations, wildlife and human health.
On 30 September 2015 Russia launched a military intervention in Syria at the request of President Bashar al-Assad, whose government then controlled only a fraction of the country and was losing ground to rebel and jihadist forces.
On 28 September 1864 delegates meeting at St Martin's Hall in London founded the International Workingmen's Association, later known as the First International.