Historical timeline for September 29

Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.

Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.

The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.

The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills over 189 and injures hundreds.

The stock market crashes with the Dow Jones dropping a then record 778 points after the United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails during the beginning stages of the Great Recession.

Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.

John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.

The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.

Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.

A Haitian coup d'état occurs.

Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.

The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.

The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.

An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.

Equatorial Guinean dictator Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.

WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.