DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2021. There are 93 days left in the year.
On this date in:
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.
1918: Allied forces began their decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.
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.
1962: Canada joined the space age as it launched the Alouette 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The musical “My Fair Lady” closed on Broadway after 2,717 performances.
1978: Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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.)
1986: The Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined on spying charges.
2000: Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2001: President George W. Bush condemned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers as the United States pressed its military and diplomatic campaign against terror.
2005: John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2006: U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he’d sent to former House pages.
Filmmaker Robert Benton (“Kramer vs. Kramer”) is 89. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 86. Actor Ian Mcshane is 79. Jazz violinist Jean-luc Ponty is 79. TV theme composer Mike Post is 77. Actor Patricia Hodge is 75. Guitarist Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly is 73. Singerguitarist Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad is 73. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 73. Comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay is 64. Singer-bassist Les Claypool of Primus is 58. Actor Ben Miles (“The Crown”) is 55. Actor Jill Whelan
(“Love Boat”) is 55. Bassist Brad Smith of Blind Melon is 53. Actor Erika Eleniak (“Baywatch”) is 52. Actor Rachel Cronin
(“Ed”) is 50. Guitarist Danick Dupelle of Emerson Drive is 48. Actor Alexis Cruz
(“Shark,” “Touched by an Angel”) is 47. Actor Chrissy Metz (“This Is Us”) is 41. Actor Kelly Mccreary (“Grey’s Anatomy”) is 40. Guitarist Josh Farro (Paramore) is 34. Actor Doug Brochu (“Sonny With a Chance”) is 31. Singer Phillip Phillips is 31. Singer Halsey is 27.