The Persian king Darius the Great kills the imposter Gaumata, a Median priest who had claimed the throne by impersonating Darius\u2019s late brother.<\/p>\n
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At a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, the future national hero Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson<\/a> is born to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine.<\/p>\n Italy declared war on the Ottoman empire<\/a>.\u00a0The ensuing conflict saw the first incidence of bombing from an aeroplane when an Italian pilot dropped a grenade on an oasis near Tripoli.<\/p>\n British racing driver John Rhodes Cobb\u00a0was killed while attempting to break the world water speed record on Loch Ness<\/em> when his jet speedboat,\u00a0Crusader<\/em>, flipped over and disintegrated.<\/p>\n Browse more\u00a0On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Elinor Evans Published: Thursday, 29 September 2022 at 12:00 am 29 September 522 BC The Persian king Darius the Great kills the imposter Gaumata, a Median priest who had claimed the throne by impersonating Darius\u2019s late brother. 29 September\u00a01758 At a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, the future national hero Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18347,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/09\/29-september-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Thursday, 29 September 2022 at 12:00 am 29 September 522 BC The Persian king Darius the Great kills the imposter Gaumata, a Median priest who had claimed the throne by impersonating Darius\u2019s late brother. 29 September\u00a01758 At a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, the future national hero Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/18346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}29 September 1911<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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