TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Sept. 29, 1982

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

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.

1902

William Topaz McGonagall, affectionately considered Britain’s possibly worst-ever poet, died in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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.