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. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)

ON THIS DATE

1962

Canada joined the space age as it launched the Alouette 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

2000

Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stonethrowing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.