Santo Domingo.- The anniversaries of September 29 are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left a mark on world history. Below are the main anniversaries of September 29:
National Day of Children’s Rights.
World Heart Day.
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.
World Deaf Day.
World Thrombocytopenia Day or Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia (PTI, in English ITP).
Feast of the Archangels: Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Saint Raphael. Independence Day in Yugoslavia.
National: Anniversaries of September 29
1866: General José María Cabral is sworn in as President, in the midst of an armed uprising in the country.
1878: President Jacinto de Castro resigns; he is replaced by a Council of Secretaries of State until February 1879, when Cesáreo Guillermo and Bastardo were elected.
1923: The renowned musician and composer Juan Bautista Espínola dies.
1948: Boxer Félix Amado Gómez (Kid Dinamita) dies.
1950: By decree 6853, the Aviation Corps is renamed the Dominican Air Force.
1963: Deposed President Juan Bosch is deported to Guadeloupe Island with his wife Carmen Quidiello de Bosch.
1966: President Joaquín Balaguer sends a bill to Congress to modify the 1963 Constitution.
The cyclone “Inés”, category 4, devastates the populations in Barahona and Pedernales.
1992: The Executive Power orders through decree 288-82 that the National Day of Children’s Rights be celebrated.
2004: Unknowns on motorcycles shoot at the vehicle of commentator Euri Cabral and engineer Mildred Salas Reyes; both are unharmed.
2013: Marie Etienne Desire Joseph becomes the first Haitian-origin Dominican to receive a temporary stay permit in the DR.
The sugar industry rejects a report from the US Department of Labor on forced labor and child labor, considering it outdated.
2014: The Union of Sugarcane Workers announces that the Haitian government will provide documents to sugarcane workers over 60 years old and with disabilities.
2015: The DR presents its concern to the WTO about the Haitian ban on 23 Dominican products.
The free newspaper Metro RD, directed by Homero Figueroa, is first published.
2019: The second unit of the Punta Catalina power plant performs its first 21-megawatt generation test.
The Office of the Coordinating Judges of the National District receives a formal accusation against Leoncio Almánzar Objío and 16 others involved in the illegal sale of land.
The Public Ministry announces the reopening of 326 corruption and other “dormant” cases from 17 years ago.
2020: President Luis Abinader delivers confidential documents to the National Archives corresponding to the period 1930-1966.
2021: Jaime Aristy Escuder denounces that the poor management of Punta Catalina costs the government over $800,000 per day.
2022: The Barbados Parliament approves the country’s conversion to a republic, ending its association with the British Crown.
International: Anniversaries of September 29
1547: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, is born.
1717: The San Miguel earthquake partially destroys Santiago de los Caballeros, then the capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala.
1906: US troops invade Cuba at the request of President Estrada Palma; Theodore Roosevelt appoints William Howard Taft as civil governor of the island.
1936: Francisco Franco is appointed head of state and generalissimo during the Spanish Civil War.
1938: Germany, Italy, Britain, and France sign the Munich Pact; Czechoslovakia cedes the Sudeten region to Nazi Germany.
1941: SS troops execute 35,000 Jews in Babi Yar, near Kiev.
1943: Italy signs an armistice with the Allies.
1957: An explosion at the Mayak nuclear plant in Chelyabinsk (Russia) exposes 470,000 people to radiation and causes 200 cancer deaths.
1964: The comic strip Mafalda, created by Quino, is first published in Argentina.
1969: Floods in Algeria and Tunisia cause over 600 deaths.
1978: Pope John Paul I is found dead in his bed in the Vatican, at 65 years old, due to a heart attack.
1979: In Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema and six collaborators are executed after being overthrown.
In Spain, Felipe González is re-elected as secretary general of the PSOE, adding Marxism as a theoretical instrument.
2006: The US Senate approves the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
A 15-year-old student kills the director of his high school in the US after being reprimanded for smoking.
2010: A general strike in Spain paralyzes the country, called by Comisiones Obreras and UGT.
2013: Islamist extremists kill 50 students at a agricultural college in Yobe, Nigeria.
2014: José Miguel Insulza (OEA) asks countries on the continent to host Guantánamo prisoners in conditions to be released.
2015: Ashraf Ghani assumes the presidency of Afghanistan and calls on the Taliban to negotiate.
2018: Earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi leave at least 385 dead and 540 injured.
2019: US House of Representatives committees begin investigating possible impeachment of Donald Trump.
2020: Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah becomes the new emir of Kuwait after the death of his half-brother.
2021: Cuba receives and assists Haitian migrants stranded on the island, on their way to the US.
2022: Vladimir Putin recognizes the independence of Jersón and Zaporozhie, a measure objected to by the UN.
Births: Anniversaries of September 29
1547: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer.
1786: Guadalupe Victoria (José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández-Félix), Mexican military man, 1st president between 1824 and 1829.
1951: Michelle Bachelet, Chilean politician and doctor, president of Chile between 2006-2010 and 2014-2018.
2008: Emma Tallulah Behn, Norwegian aristocrat.
Deaths: Anniversaries of September 29
1892: Felipe Picatoste, Spanish mathematician, educator, journalist, politician, and polygraph.
1923: Juan Bautista Espínola, musician.
1948: Félix Amado Gómez (Kid Dinamita), boxer.
1978: Pope John Paul I in the Vatican.
2020: Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Yaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti diplomat and politician, emir of Kuwait between 2006 and 2020.
