TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, the 272nd day of 2018. There are 93 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
In 1829, London’s reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.
In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
In 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.
In 1957, the San Francisco-bound New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-1. The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game before moving to Los Angeles, losing to the Phillies 2-1 in Philadelphia.
In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. To date, the case remains unsolved.
In 2000, Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
In 2005, John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Conductor Richard Bonynge is 88. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 83. Soul-blues-gospel singer Sherman Holmes is 79. Actor Ian McShane and jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty are 76. Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa is 75. Television-film composer Mike Post is 74. Actress Patricia Hodge is 72. TV personality Bryant Gumbel, and rock singer-musicians Mark Farner and Mike Pinera are 70. Country singer Alvin Crow is 68. Rock singer John Payne (Asia) is 60. Actor Roger Bart is 56. Singer-musician Les Claypool is 55. Actress Jill Whelan and actor Ben Miles are 52. Actor Luke Goss and rock musician Brad Smith (Blind Melon) are 50. Country singer Brad Cotter (TV: “Nashville Star”), and actresses Emily Lloyd and Natasha Gregson Wagner are 48. Actress Rachel Cronin is 47. Actor Alexis Cruz is 44. Actor Zachary Levi and actress Chrissy Metz (TV: “This Is Us”) are 38. Actress Kelly McCreary (TV: “Grey’s Anatomy”) is 37. Actor Doug Brochu and singer Phillip Phillips are 28. Actress Clara Mamet is 24.