TODAY IN HISTORY

On Sept. 29, 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 1918, Allied forces began their decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.

In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which allowed Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

In 1977, the Billy Joel album “The Stranger” was released by Columbia Records.

In 2001, President George W. Bush condemned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers.

In 2005, John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after Senate confirmation.