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September 29th - Today's Highlights in History

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« on: September 29, 2009, 07:01:31 am »

Tuesday, September 29th
The 272nd day of 2009.
There are 93 days left in the year.
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Today's Highlights in History


   
   On Sept. 29, 1957, the New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1. The Giants moved to San Francisco for the next season. (Go to article.)

On Sept. 29, 1901, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born physicist who helped develop America's first atomic weapons, was born. Following his death on Nov. 28, 1954, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
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   On September 29, 1866, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Reconstruction. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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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.

1901    Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi was born in Rome.

1918    Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough on the Hindenburg Line during World War I.

1943    General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.

1954    New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate on a 450-foot blast by Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the World Series. It is widely considered to be the greatest catch ever made.

1963    The second session of the Second Vatican Council opened in Rome.

1978    Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little more than one month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

1982    Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (The case remains unsolved.)

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

1989    Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled her over.

2000    Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.

2005    John Roberts was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.

2005    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.

2006    Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.

2008    The Dow Jones industrial average fell a record 777.68 points after the House defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue plan for the nation's financial system.

Current Birthdays



Gwen Ifill turns 54 years old today.

AP Photo/Charles Sykes Broadcast journalist Gwen Ifill turns 54 years old today.


87    Lizabeth Scott
Actress

85    Steve Forrest
Actor

78    Eddie Barth
Actor

78    Anita Ekberg
Actress

77    Robert Benton
Director, writer

74    Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock singer, musician

67    Ian McShane
Actor ("Deadwood")

67    Bill Nelson
U.S. senator, D-Fla.

67    Jean-Luc Ponty
Jazz violinist

65    Mike Post
TV, film theme composer

63    Patricia Hodge
Actress

61    Mark Farner
Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)

61    Bryant Gumbel
TV personality

61    Mike Pinera
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)

59    Alvin Crow
Country singer

56    Drake Hogestyn
Actor

54    Ken Weatherwax
Actor ("The Addams Family")

53    Suzzy Roche
Singer (The Roches)

52    Andrew "Dice" Clay
Comedian

51    John Payne
Rock singer (Asia)

47    Roger Bart
Actor

46    Les Claypool
Rock singer, musician (Primus)

43    Jill Whelan
Actress ("The Love Boat")

41    Luke Goss
Actor

41    Brad Smith
Rock musician (Blind Melon)

40    Erika Eleniak
Actress

40    Devante Swing
R&B singer (Jodeci)

39    Brad Cotter
Country singer ("Nashville Star")

39    Emily Lloyd
Actress

39    Natasha Gregson Wagner
Actress

38    Rachel Cronin
Actress ("Ed")

36    Danick Dupelle
Country musician (Emerson Drive)

35    Alexis Cruz
Actor

29    Zachary Levi
Actor ("Chuck")

27    Katie McNeill
Country singer (3 of Hearts)

22    Josh Farro
Rock musician (Paramore)

Historic Birthdays



Enrico Fermi

9/29/1901 - 11/28/1954
Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1938)
(Go to obit.)

57    Pompey The Great
9/29/106 BC - 9/28/48 BC
Roman statesman and general of the Roman Republic

68    John Leslie
9/29/1527 - 5/31/1596
Scottish bishop; advisor to Queen Mary

66    Francois Boucher
9/29/1703 - 5/30/1770
French painter, engraver and designer

47    Horatio Nelson
9/29/1758 - 10/21/1805
English naval commander

84    Caroline Yale
9/29/1848 - 7/2/1933
American educator of the deaf

54    Walther Rathenau
9/29/1867 - 6/24/1922
German statesman, industrialist and philosopher

80    Miguel Aleman
9/29/1902 - 5/14/1983
Mexican president (1946-52)

91    Greer Garson
9/29/1904 - 4/6/1996
English-born motion-picture actress

71    Trevor Howard
9/29/1913 - 1/7/1988
English stage and screen actor


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