TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 29, 1978

Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1789

The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829

London’s reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.

1910

The National Urban League had its beginnings in New York as The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes.

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.

1943

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.

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.

1977

The Billy Joel album “The Stranger” was released by Columbia Records.

1982

Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area.