Today is my Birthday

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1916 – John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

Births

1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen
1907 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman
1923 – Stan Berenstain, American children’s author
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American television personality

there were a lot more births and event these are just the one i have heard of.