What happend on 29th September

28.09
30.09
1938

Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1918

The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.

1907

The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1902

Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.

1864

American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.

1829

London's reorganized police force, the Metropolitan Police, becomes the first official police department in the world.

1789

The first U.S. Congress adjourns.

1789

The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1567

At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.

1364

Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession