This Day In European History

29th September

Events
480 BCE: Battle of Salamis; a combined Greek navy is victorious over the Persian fleet.
1829: London's first regular police patrols.

Births
106 BCE: Pompey the Great, Roman general and statesman.
1518: Tintoretto, Venetian painter.
1547: Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author.
1639: William Russell, English politician.
1640: Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor.
1703: Francois Boucher, French artist.
1725: Robert Clive, British soldier.
1758: Horatio Nelson, British Admiral.
1810: Elizabeth Stevenson, 'Mrs. Gaskell', English author.
1901: Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist.

Deaths
1889: Louis Faidherbe, French colonialist.
1913: Rudolf Diesel, German engine inventor.

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