This day in history
Today is Friday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2022. There are 93 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Conductor Richard Bonynge is 93. Actor Ian McShane is 81. Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa is 80. Television-film composer Mike Post is 79. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 75. Olympic gold medal runner Sebastian Coe is 67. Actor Emily Lloyd is 53. Actor Natasha Gregson Wagner is 53. Actor Rachel Cronin is 52. Actor Zachary Levi is 43. NBA All-Star Kevin Durant is 35. Singer Phillip Phillips is 33. Pop singer Halsey is 29.
▶ In 1789, the US War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
▶ In 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.
▶ In 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.
▶ In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
▶ In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (The case remains unsolved.)
▶ In 1986, the Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined on spying charges.
▶ In 2000, Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stonethrowing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
▶ In 2005, John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17 th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
▶ In 2018, Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, agreed to pay a total of $40 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that Musk had duped investors with misleading statements about a proposed buyout of the company.
▶ Last year, rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark.