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Punam Krishan

... that Punam Krishan (pictured) was raised on curry and Irn-Bru?
... that Japanese girls found the song "Ai Uta" by the band Greeeen to be a perfect love song for the autumn, according to a 2007 Oricon survey?
... that Margrit Waltz has ferried planes to points on five continents?
... that scholar Mohja Kahf stated that there is no Syrian literature?
... that after supervising construction of London's Tower Bridge in the 1890s, engineer Edward Cruttwell was retained as consulting engineer to the bridge until his death in 1933?
... that the Afonso Henriques Theatre in Guimarães, Portugal, regularly performed shows and plays to aid the construction of the nearby Santos Passos Church?
... that poet and rapper Elayne Harrington carried all her property in her bodhrán case while homeless in Dublin?
... that Edi Rama and Baba Mondi plan to create the smallest nation in the world?
... that Giorgina Reid patented a technique for holding up banks?

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September 29: Michaelmas (Western Christianity)

Willie Mays

1724 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
1954 – Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
1964 – Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
2004 – Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.

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