29th September, 1918 - Ludendorff in depression, he and Hindenburg demand armistice talks from the Kaiser, and a new government. He agrees. BEF set a new record: 943.947 grenades fired in a day.
Military stuff:
480 BC: The Athenians undrer Themistocles put an end to Persian expansion into the Aegean in the battle of Salamis. Had that one ended differently, we'd probably learn Ancient Farsi at school, not Ancient Greek and Latin.
1760 - Fort Detroit is the last French holdout to capitulate, without a fight, to the Perfidious Albion in America.
1941 - That day sees one of the crimes under Nazi rule that merit the expression "Zivilisationsbruch", a breakdown of civilisation: The massacre of Babi Yar, in which 33,000 Jews are killed, on e by one, by memeber of the Whermacht, Sicherheitsdienst, Secret Field Police and a brigade of SS men. Yevgeny Yevtuchenko wrote a
poem about that day, and it was set, inimitably, terrifyingly, hauntingly,
to music by Dmitry Shostakovich