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Sep 29, 1918: Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line
On this day in 1918, after a 56-hour-long bombardment, Allied forces breach the so-called Hindenburg Line, the last line of German defenses on the Western Front during World War I.
Built in late 1916, the Hindenburg Line—named by the British for the German commander in chief, Paul von Hindenburg; it was known to the Germans as the Siegfried Line—was a heavily fortified zone running several miles behind the active front between the north coast of France and Verdun, near the border of France and Belgium. By September 1918, the formidable system consisted of six defensive lines, forming a zone some 6,000 yards deep, ribbed with lengths of barbed wire and dotted with concrete emplacements, or firing positions. Though the entire line was heavily fortified, its southern part was most vulnerable to attack, as it included the St. Quentin Canal and was not out of sight from artillery observation by the enemy. Also, the whole system was laid out linearly, as opposed to newer constructions that had adapted to more recent developments in firepower and were built with scattered "strong points" laid out like a checkerboard to enhance the intensity of artillery fire.
The Allies would use these vulnerabilities to their advantage, concentrating all the force built up during their so-called "Hundred Days Offensive"—kicked off on August 8, 1918, with a decisive victory at Amiens, France—against the Hindenburg Line in late September. Australian, British, French and American forces participated in the attack on the line, which began with the marathon bombardment, using 1,637 guns along a 10,000-yard-long front. In the last 24 hours the British artillery fired a record 945,052 shells. After capturing the St. Quentin Canal with a creeping barrage of fire—126 shells for each 500 yards of German trench over an eight-hour period—the Allies were able to successfully breach the Hindenburg Line on September 29.
The offensive was driven ahead by Australian and U.S. troops, who attacked the heavily fortified town of Bellicourt with tank, aircraft and artillery support. After four days of battle, with heavy losses on both sides, the Germans were forced to retreat. With Kaiser Wilhelm II pressured by the military into accepting governmental reform and Germany’s ally, Bulgaria, suing for an armistice by the end of September, the Central Powers were in disarray on the battlefield as well as the home front. The Allies, meanwhile, pressed their advantage on the Western Front throughout the following month, which would, against their predictions, turn out to be the final month of World War I.
Sep 29, 1982: The Tylenol murders
On this day in 1982, a sick 12-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, unwittingly takes an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule laced with cyanide poison and dies later that day. She would be one of seven people to die suddenly after taking the popular over-the-counter medication, as the so-called Tylenol murders spread fear across America. The victims, all from the Chicago area, ranged in age from 12 to 35 and included three members of the same family. Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, launched a massive recall of its product and offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible.
Investigators soon determined that the tainted Tylenol capsules hadn't been tampered with at the factories where they were produced. This meant that someone had taken the bottles from store shelves, laced them with poison and then returned them to grocery stores and pharmacies, where the victims later purchased the tampered bottles.
Johnson & Johnson reacted to the crisis swiftly and decisively, launching a massive public relations campaign urging the public not to use Tylenol. The company also ordered a national recall of 264,000 bottles of Tylenol and offered free replacement of the product in safer tablet form. At the time, it was unusual for companies to recall their products.
Before the "Tylenol Terrorist" struck, Tylenol was the nation's leading over-the-counter drug and Johnson & Johnson's bestselling product and some observers speculated that Tylenol would never be able to recover from the disaster. However, within months, Tylenol was back on store shelves with a new safety seal. The recall and re-launch cost Johnson & Johnson over $100 million, but in the end, Johnson & Johnson was praised for its handling of the crisis. Within a year, Tylenol's market share rebounded and its tarnished image was significantly repaired.
The Tylenol murders, which inspired copycat crimes involving other products, were never solved, although various individuals were investigated. However, a positive outcome of the crisis was that it led drug makers to develop tamper-proof packaging, which had been largely nonexistent before the Tylenol Terrorist struck.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper
Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under
Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for
victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th
birthday.
219 - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules
Magusanus Rome
235 - St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
440 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed
855 - Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1187 - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
1227 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik
II
1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning
wells
1364 - Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at
Brittany
1521 - Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
1564 - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 - War of Religion breaks out in France - Huguenots try
to kidnap king Charles IX
1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of
Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies
for colonists
1650 - 2nd Fronde-uprising ends
1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1678 - France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty
Roman Military and Political Leader Pompey the GreatRoman
Military and Political Leader Pompey the Great 1785 - Chasidic sect is
excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
1793 - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting
magazine
1815 - King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
(Scotland Yard)
1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at
Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
1849 - 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New
Haven Railroad)
1853 - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off
Scotland, drowning 348
1859 - Great auroral display in US
1863 - Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced
(Paris)
1864 - Battle of Battle of Chaffin's Farm & New Market
Heights VA
1872 - "3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys
Kwahadi-Commanche village
1872 - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
1875 - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban
rebellion
1879 - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause,
giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the
world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1890 - 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat
Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 - 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1898 - French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught
1902 - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway
theater
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected
(Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1908 - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1911 - Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the
Italo-Turkish War
1911 - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating
Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1912 - French/British troops lands on Samoa
1913 - Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC
1913 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1914 - Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July,
clinch NL pennant
1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 - Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat,"
premieres in NYC
1915 - Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta
1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
Oil Industrialist John D. RockefellerOil Industrialist John
D. Rockefeller 1916 - John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of
Hindenburg Line
1920 - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1920 - Belgium annexes Eupen/Malmö dy
1920 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for
$10
1921 - Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle
Giants to clinch NL
1922 - Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist
party program
1923 - 6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC
Pelham NY
1923 - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to
public
1924 - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
1924 - Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front
of Yankees
1925 - French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 - Greek republican constitution enforced
1926 - Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg
1927 - Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in
consecutive games
Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1927 -
Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1927 - Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die
1928 - Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1928 - Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record
(45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 - 1st Canadian football game played under lights,
Hamilton-UBC
1930 - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1930 - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing
Floyd Gibbons
1930 - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1932 - "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the
Mayfair
1933 - Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1935 - 5th Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club
(Ridgewood, New Jersey, US)
1936 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1937 - Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km)
1938 - 1st archival course is offered at Columbia University
in NYC
1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini,
Daladier & Chamberlain
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi
Germany Adolf Hitler 1940 - "Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show,
1st heard on Mutual Radio Net
1940 - "Strike Up Band," opens
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington"
commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 - Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing
title
1941 - Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ
Dodgers in a parade
1941 - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1942 - 32°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in
Sept
1942 - Government of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
1943 - 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
1943 - Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign
an armistice
1943 - German riots at Amsterdam Jews
1943 - Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer
Kremenchug
1944 - Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them
sweep Yanks in DH
1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1945 - Cubs clinch NL pennant
1946 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS
Radio
1946 - 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards &
Dodgers)
1946 - Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine
in 10 secs
1946 - Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL
game in LA
1946 - NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms
1947 - Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall
concert in NY
1947 - Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red
Sox
1947 - Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium
($325,828)
1948 - Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park
Avenue Cinema
1948 - WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX
(NBC) begins
1948 - WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins
broadcasting
1949 - "Front Page," debuts on CBS-TV
1949 - "Inside USA With Chevrolet," debuts on
CBS-TV
1949 - Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters
opens at Rivoli
1950 - "Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV
1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell
Laboratories
1950 - Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey
Stengel
1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila
(CBS)
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10
mile
1951 - S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1952 - "Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV
1952 - Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching
appearance
1953 - "Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny
Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
1953 - 1st dept store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie
Scott in Chicago Ill
1953 - Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in
Browns for $2,475,000
1953 - Milton Berle Show premieres
1953 - US government gives France $385 million for combat in
Indo-China
1954 - "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner
premieres at the Capitol
1954 - "Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to
ABC
Actress Judy GarlandActress Judy Garland 1954 - "Star
is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres
1954 - Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom
1954 - KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins
broadcasting
1954 - Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic
Wertz' 460' drive
1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia
1955 - Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge,"
premieres in NYC
1956 - "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle &
Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
1956 - "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 - Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
1957 - "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on
CBS-TV
1957 - "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1957 - 300 die as express train hits stalled train
(Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single
"Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away"
1957 - NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo
Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
Singer Buddy HollySinger Buddy Holly 1957 - Passenger train
& oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
1958 - "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs
on CBS-TV
1958 - "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks
at #8
1958 - "Texan," debuts on CBS-TV
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on
CBS-TV
1959 - "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
1959 - Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL
pennant
1959 - Little Anthony & the Imperials record
"Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"
1959 - Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1960 - "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs
on CBS-TV
1960 - "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray,
debuts on ABC-TV
1960 - "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on
NBC-TV
1960 - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance
peaks at #1 in UK
1960 - "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater
NYC for 527 performances
1961 - "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to
NBC-TV
Singer-Songwriter Bob DylanSinger-Songwriter Bob Dylan 1961
- Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester
1961 - Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
1962 - "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano
peaks at #7
1962 - "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks
at #3
1962 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger
Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs
1962 - "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts
on ABC-TV
1962 - "You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo
Diddley peaks at #48
1962 - Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
1962 - Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts
in a doubleheader
1962 - JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U
of Mississippi
1962 - Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US
Delta rocket)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray
Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,'
opens in Rome
US President John F. KennedyUS President John F. Kennedy
1963 - Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th & 3,630th hit
1963 - Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his
only game
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1963 - Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley
& Everly Bros)
1963 - Stan Musial Day in St Louis
1964 - Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1965 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27'
4 3/4"
1965 - St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs
Cleve (49-13)
1965 - WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1965 - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching
base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season
1966 - Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes
Botswana
1966 - Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is
introduced.
1967 - -Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod
1967 - Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it
Through the Grapevine"
1967 - Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system
1967 - Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the
Straightater
1968 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 - Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight
batting crown
1968 - Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return
avg (3 punts)
1969 - "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts
on NBC-TV
1969 - "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV
1969 - "Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - "Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV
1969 - 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1969 - Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put
Little Love in Your Heart"
1969 - Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR
of season
1969 - Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98
yards vs Denver
1970 - "NET Festival," last aired
1971 - "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1971 - Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as
many as 10,000
1971 - Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched
1971 - Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a
season
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - Japan & People's Republic of China begin
diplomatic relations
1973 - "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass
peaks at #33
1973 - "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk
peaks at #1
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs
Detroit)
1973 - Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more
highway accidents
1973 - Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1974 - 4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in
3:07:29
1974 - 5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30
1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1975 - "Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV
1975 - Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he
dies in 1984
1975 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 - WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began
broadcasting
1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American
television's first African-American weathercaster.
1976 - "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV
1976 - 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social
democratic abortion law
1976 - Boy George expelled from school
1976 - SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1976 - Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1976 - Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger
manager
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Country Singer Jerry Lee LewisCountry Singer Jerry Lee Lewis
1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player
Norman Owens twice in the chest
1977 - "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco
hits #1
1977 - Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight
championship
1977 - James Brown's band walks out claiming they were
underpaid & overworked
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for
heavyweight boxing title
1977 - Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini,"
premieres in Amsterdam
1977 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth
orbit
1978 - "Flying High," debuts on CBS
1978 - "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap;
last airs on NBC-TV
1979 - "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks
at #35
1979 - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer
peaks at #14
1979 - "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers
peaks at #56
1979 - "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez
peaks at #16
1979 - "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at
#12
1979 - "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern
peaks at #18
Singer Maureen McGovernSinger Maureen McGovern 1979 -
"Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15
1979 - "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1979 - "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks
at #6
1979 - "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1
in UK
1979 - "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by
Stephanie Mills peaks at #22
1979 - Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty
record of 313
1979 - Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 - John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY
Film Festival
1979 - LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1980 - Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1982 - 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1982 - Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become
longest running Bdwy show
264th Pope John Paul II264th Pope John Paul II 1983 - 1st
time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 - Airport of Beirut reopens
1983 - Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US
Marines in Lebanon
1983 - Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox,
3-0
1984 - "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes
peaks at #39
1984 - "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
1984 - "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
1984 - "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship
peaks at #66
1984 - "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution
peaks at #1
1984 - "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
1984 - "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
1984 - "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger
peaks at #14
1984 - "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty
Ford Clinic
1985 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to
NBC-TV
Director Steven SpielbergDirector Steven Spielberg 1985 -
"Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV
1985 - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson,
debuts on ABC-TV
1985 - 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1985 - Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4
interceptions!
1985 - Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12
times (by Cowboys)
1986 - "Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA
1986 - "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
1986 - Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st
rookie brothers)
1986 - Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major
league pitch he sees
1986 - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff
confined on spy charges
1987 - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney
Houston hits #1
1987 - "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV
1987 - 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1987 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of
year
Singer Whitney HoustonSinger Whitney Houston 1988 - 26th
Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's
record (21.34)
1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 - Union Station reopens in Wash DC
1989 - Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time
since 1981)
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer
in Beverly Hills
1990 - "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at
#1 on pop singles chart
1990 - "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater
NYC after 6 perfs
1990 - Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st
place all year
1990 - US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's
foreign minister
1990 - Washington National Cathedral construction is
completed after 83 years
1990 - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara
Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor,
flies for the first time.
1991 - "My Own Private Idaho" premieres
1991 - 29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean
Course (South Carolina, US)
1991 - Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
1992 - Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he
doesn't)
1992 - Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1993 - "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler
debuts on ABC-TV
1993 - 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ SimpsonNFL
Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 1994 - 1st phase of OJ Simpson
murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
1994 - House votes to end lobbyists buying meals &
entertainment for Congress
1994 - Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame
1995 - Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead
over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
1995 - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
1995 - Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v
Sri Lanka
1995 - US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
1996 - "Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth
Theater NYC
1996 - 34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City
USA (5-0)
1996 - Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston
Texas)
1996 - Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs
1996 - Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34
1996 - Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months
after Japan)
1996 - Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
1996 - SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
Singer-Songwriter Alanis MorissetteSinger-Songwriter Alanis
Morissette 1996 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic
1996 - US wins Federation Cup over Spain
1997 - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing
trial begins
2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating
back to 1839, ceases publication.
2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar
distances of Earth.
2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne
performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize.
2005 - Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title
since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in
first place on every day of the season
2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after
allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear
power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a
controlled explosion.
2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and
Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the
largest single-day point loss in its history.
2009 - An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands
causes a tsunami .
1789 - A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men. 1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard. 1902 - David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater. 1930 - Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years. 1930 - Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee were married. 1940 - The radio quiz show "Double or Nothing" debuted on the Mutual Radio Network. 1943 - U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson. 1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuted on CBS Radio. 1951 - The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania. 1953 - "Make Room for Daddy" premiered on ABC-TV. 1955 - "A View From the Bridge," a play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater. 1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA. 1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV. 1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. 1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV. 1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premiered on CBS-TV. 1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world. 1977 - Eva Shain became the first woman to officiate a heavyweight title boxing match. About 70 million people watched Muhammad Ali defeat Ernie Shavers on NBC-TV. 1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled. 1983 - The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months. 1983 - "A Chorus Line" with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway. 1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army. 1984 - Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world's most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem. 1986 - Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics. 1988 - The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster. 1990 - "Millie's Book" by First Lady Barbara Bush was the best-selling non-fiction book in the U.S. 1992 - Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November. 1992 - Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello. 1993 - Bosnia's parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by force. 1994 - The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress. 1998 - Hasbro announced plans to introduce an action figure of retired U.S. General Colin Powell. 2010 - In China, Canton Tower became operational.
1399 King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate his throne. 1829 Sir Robert Peel's police force, the "bobbies," began operations at Scotland Yard. 1895 French chemist Louis Pasteur died. 1978 John Paul I died one month after becoming pope. 1982 Seven people died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. This led to the use of safety seals on most consumer products. 1988 The space shuttle Discovery was launched, the first American staffed space flight since the Challenger disaster. 2001 Former South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu died.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/sep29.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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