TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 29, 1789

The U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 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.

1975

Baseball manager Casey Stengel died in Glendale, California, at age 85.

1977

The Billy Joel album “The Stranger” was released by Columbia Records.

1982

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

1989

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer after he’d pulled over her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates.

2000

Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stonethrowing 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.