September 29^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Enrico Fermi: Biography of the Day

Enrico Fermi

"Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge."

Enrico Fermi

Born in Italy this day in 1901, American physicist Enrico Fermi received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, directed the first controlled chain reaction involving nuclear fission, and helped develop the first atomic bomb.

 

British mandate in Palestine: 29 September 1923 - This Day in History

Set in motion by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British mandate for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was finally approved by the Council of the League of Nations and came into force this day in 1923.

More Events on this day:

1938: The American harness racehorse Greyhound established a trotting record for 1 mile in 1:55¹/₄.

1938: Poland demanded the cession of Teschen, a rich region that had been contested and then divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia following World War I.

1918: German Chancellor Georg von Hertling tendered his resignation on the day of the Bulgarian armistice and the British attack of the Western Front during World War I.

1906: The United States occupied Cuba after the rebellion surrounding the reelection of Tomás Estrada Palma.

1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain died, and his two-year-old daughter, Isabella II, was proclaimed queen.

642: Arab General 'Amr ibn al-' marched into Alexandria, and the Arab conquest of Egypt, which had begun with an invasion three years earlier, ended in peaceful capitulation.