september 29th in history: what happened

Henry Robinson opened the world’s first marriage agency in London in 1650.

In 1793, an English sports magazine first mentioned the game of tennis.

On this day, but in 1829, in London, on the orders of the then Minister of the Interior Robert Peel, a civilian police was created, later - Scotland Yard.

In 1916, John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, became the world’s first billionaire businessman.

On September 29, the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547); Russian historian and archaeologist, author of the History of Moscow Ivan Zabelin (1820); Soviet biologist, academician, who organized the struggle against classical genetics in the USSR Trofim Lysenko (1898); Soviet writer (“How steel was hardened”, “Born by a storm”) Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904).