Template:On this day/29 September

29 September:

• 1227 – Frederick II, Haly Roman Emperor (picturt), is excommunicatit bi Pape Gregory IX for his failyie tae pairteecipate in the Crusades.
• 1578 – Tegucigalpa, caipital ceety o Honduras, is claimed bi the Spaniards.
• 1829 – The Metropolitan Polis o Lunnon, later an aw kent as the Met, is foondit.
• 1923 – The Breetish Mandate for Palestine taks effect, creautin Mandatory Palestine.
• 1957 – The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.

Pompey (b. 106 BC) · Horatio Nelson (b. 1758) · Lech Wałęsa (b. 1943)