Today In History - September 29

855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1349 The people of Krems, Austria accuse the Jews of poisoning the wells
1364 Battle of Auray
1650 Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau in England
1789 The first congress adjourns
1789 The US War Department established a regular army
1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
1829 Scotland Yard is formed in London
1849 The first passenger train service to Peekskill, NY: New Haven Railroad
1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland drowning 348 people
1859 A great auroral display is visible in the US
1892 The first night football game is played in Mansfield, PA
1895 Louis Pasteur dies
1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater
1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1915 A hurricane claims 275 lives in the Mississippi Delta
1920 Babe Ruth sets a new home run season record at 54
1923 Steinhart Aquarium in the Golden Gate Park opens to the public
1927 A Tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri
1936 Radio used for the first time for a presidential campaign
1940 The first US merchant ship, the "Booker T Washington." commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac) is launched at Wilmington Delaware
1943 Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1951 S. B. Nicholson discovers the 12th satellite of Jupiter
1953 The Milton Berle Show premiers
1957 300 people die when a train hits a stalled train in Pakistan
1962 Launch of the Alouette I, the first Canadian satellite
1963 The Rolling Stones first tour starts
1969 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC
1975 Casey Stengel dies at age 85
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1979 Gold hits a record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kill seven people in Chicago
1983 The first time that Congress invokes its War Powers Act
1986 The USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff: arrested on spy charges
1988 UN peacekeeping forces win the Nobel Peace prize
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed – after 83 years

1511 Michael Servetus
1755 Robert Lord Clive
1758 Horatio Nelson Burnham Thorpe
1838 Henry Hobson Richardson
1848 Caroline Ardelia
1901 Enrico Fermi
1902 Miguel Alem
1903 Ted Decorsia
1907 Gene Autry
1907 Michael Shepley
1907 Richard Harkness
1908 Greer Garson
1910 Virginia Bruce
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni
1913 Stanley E. Kramer
1915 Brenda Marshall
1916 Trevor Howard
1919 Masao Takemoto
1920 James Mitchell
1922 Lizabeth Scott
1923 O.A. "Bum" Phillips
1924 Steve Forrest
1925 John Tower
1927 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva
1927 Paul McCloskey
1929 Bob Newhart
1930 Richard Bonynge
1931 Anita Ekberg
1931 Eddie Barth
1932 Robert Benton
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis
1939 Larry Linville
1939 Mylene Demongeot
1942 Donna Corcoran
1942 Ian McShane
1942 Madeline Kahn
1942 William Nelson
1943 Lech Walesa
1948 Bryant Gumbel
1948 Mark Farner
1948 Viktor Krovopouskov
1953 Drake Hogestyn
1954 Cindy Morgan
1956 Sebastian Coe
1960 Leslie Graves
1960 Wendy White
1964 Julie Peterson
1966 Jill Whelan
1968 Luke Goss
1968 Matt Goss
1969 Erika Eleniak
1970 Emily Lloyd