Today in History....September 29

On this day 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 scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I
1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders signed the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

1963, the second session of Second Vatican Council opened in Rome

1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after unwittingly taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide

1986, the Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined in Moscow on spying charges

1988, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster

1996, the organization that supervised Bosnia's first postwar elections officially certified the results -- with victories by nationalist parties and the country's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic

2001, President 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

New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity