TODAY INHISTORY
Today isTuesday, Sept. 29.
TODAY’SHIGHLIGHT
OnSept. 29,2005, John G. RobertsJr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice afterwinningSenate confirmation.
ONTHISDATE
In 1789, theU.S. War Department established a regulararmywith a strength of several hundred men.
In 1910, the National Urban League had its beginnings in NewYork asTheCommittee on Urban ConditionsAmong Negroes.
In 1918, Allied forces began theirdecisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line duringWorldWar I.
In 1938, British, French, Germanand Italian leaders concluded the MunichAgreement, whichwas aimed at appeasingAdolf Hitlerby allowing Nazi annexation ofCzechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
In 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhowerand Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British shipHMSNelson offMalta.
In1962, Canada joined the space age as it launched the Alouette 1 satellite from VandenbergAirForceBase in California. The musical “MyFairLady”closed on Broadway after2,717 performances.
In 1975, baseballmanager CaseyStengel died in Glendale, California, at age 85.
In 1978, PopeJohnPaul Iwas founddeadin hisVatican apartment just overamonth afterbecoming head of the RomanCatholic Church. In1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules lacedwith deadly cyanide claimed the first of sevenvictims in the Chicago area.(To date, the case remains unsolved.) In1999, TheAssociated Press reportedon the killing ofhundreds ofSouthKorean refugeesbyU.S. soldiers in the earlydays of theKorean War, beneath a bridge at a hamlet calledNoGun
Ri. (In 2001, after its own investigation, theU.S. Army affirmedthat killings had occurred, but said theywere not deliberate.)
In2000, Israeli riot police stormeda majorJerusalem shrine and openedfire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians andwounding 175.
In 2001, PresidentGeorge W. Bush condemned Afghanistan’sTaliban rulers for harboringOsamabin Laden and his followers as theUnitedStatespressed its militaryand diplomatic campaign against terror. Tenyears ago: Antiausterityprotests erupted across Europe; Greekdoctors and railwayemployees walkedoffthe job, Spanish workers shutdowntrains and buses, and onemanrammed a cement truck into the Irish parliament to protest the country’s enormousbank bailouts.
Fiveyearsago: President BarackObama, hosting aU.N. gathering ofworld leaders, pledgedall possible tools— military, intelligence and economic— to defeat the IslamicState group, but acknowledged the extremist group had taken root inSyria and Iraq, was resilient and was continuing to expand. Oneyearago: In an interview that aired onCBS'“60 Minutes,”SaudiCrownPrince Mohammedbin Salman said he took“full responsibility” for the grisly killing of journalistJamal Khashoggi, but he denied allegations that he had ordered it.