September 29
1399 - King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate his throne.
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.
1895 - French chemist Louis Pasteur died.
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.
1962 - Canada joined the space age as it launched the Alouette 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, creating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - Seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide. This led to the use of safety seals on most consumer products. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)
1986 - The Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined on spying charges.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery was launched, the first American staffed space flight since the Challenger disaster.
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 stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2001 - Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu died.
2005 - John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2012 - Omar Khadr, the last Western detainee held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returned to Canada after a decade in custody.
2017 - Tom Price resigned as President Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services amid investigations into his use of costly charter flights for official travel at taxpayer expense.
2018 - Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, agreed to pay a total of $40 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that Musk had duped investors with misleading statements about a proposed buyout of the company.
2020 - The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos, as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry and personal jabs and the two men talked over each other.
2021 - A judge in Los Angeles suspended Britney Spears' father from the conservatorship that had controlled her life and money for 13 years, saying the arrangement reflected a "toxic environment."
2022 - Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark.
Birthdays
23 - Maddie Dean (model)
29 - Clara Mamet (actress)
29 - Halsey (singer)
33 - Phillip Philips (singer)
33 - Doug Brochu (actor)
35 - Kevin Durant (basketball player)
38 - Calvin Johnson (football player)
42 - Kelly McCreary (actress)
43 - Chrissy Metz (actress)
43 - Zachary Levi (actor)
47 - Ninel Conde (actress)
49 - Alexis Cruz (actress)
52 - Rachel Cronin (actress)
53 - Natasha Gregson Wagner (actres)
53 - Emily Lloyd (actress)
53 - Brad Cotter (singer)
54 - Erika Eleniak (actress)
55 - Luke Goss (actor)
57 - Ben Miles (actor)
57 - Jill Whelan (actress)
61 - Roger Bart (actor)
66 - Andrew "Dice" Clay (actor/comedian)
67 - Suzzy Roche (singer)
67 - Sebastian Coe (runner)
70 - Drake Hogestyn (actor)
75 - Bryant Gumbel (TV host)
77 - Patricia Hodge (actress)
81 - Ian McShane (actor)
93 - Richard Bonynge (conductor)
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Today in Sports History - September 29
1900 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Walter C. "Bummy" Booth with a 17-0 exhibition win over Lincoln High.
1906 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach Amos Foster with a 56-0 win over Hastings.
1913 - Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson wins his 36th game of the season.
1920 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees establishes the then single-season MLB home run record at 54.
1934 - Nebraska opens the season with a 50-0 win over Wyoming.
1945 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach George "Potsy" Clark with a 20-0 loss to Oklahoma.
1951 - #12 Nebraska opens the season with a 28-7 loss to TCU.
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.
1956 - #8 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 34-7.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before relocating to San Francisco the following season.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Michigan 25-13.
1963 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals plays in his final MLB game, where he collects his 3,630th career hit.
1966 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his third career 300-plus strikeout season.
1969 - Punter Steve O'Neal of the New York Jets kicks a record 98-yard punt in a game against the Denver Broncos.
1973 - #2 Nebraska defeats Wisconsin 20-16.
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.
1979 - #6 Nebraska defeats #18 Penn State 42-17.
1984 - Syracuse upsets #1 Nebraska 17-9.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics.
1988 - The U.S. men's basketball team defeats Australia 78-49 to take the bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea; it would be the final time the U.S. would be represented by a team that didn't feature NBA players.
1990 - #8 Nebraska defeats Oregon State 31-7.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.
1996 - The Baltimore Orioles end the regular season with a MLB record 257 home runs.
1996 - The Houston Astros retire Nolan Ryan's #34.
2001 - #4 Nebraska defeats Missouri 36-3.
2002 - Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander sets an NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with five in the first half of a 48-23 win over the Minnesota Vikings.
2005 - The Chicago White Sox win their division and become just the 10th team in MLB history to be in first place on every day of the season.
2007 - #25 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 35-17.
2012 - #22 Nebraska defeats Wisconsin 30-27.
2017 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 28-6.
2018 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 42-28.
1399 - King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate his throne.
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.
1895 - French chemist Louis Pasteur died.
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.
1962 - Canada joined the space age as it launched the Alouette 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1965 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, creating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - Seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide. This led to the use of safety seals on most consumer products. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)
1986 - The Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined on spying charges.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery was launched, the first American staffed space flight since the Challenger disaster.
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 stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2001 - Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu died.
2005 - John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2012 - Omar Khadr, the last Western detainee held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returned to Canada after a decade in custody.
2017 - Tom Price resigned as President Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services amid investigations into his use of costly charter flights for official travel at taxpayer expense.
2018 - Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, agreed to pay a total of $40 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that Musk had duped investors with misleading statements about a proposed buyout of the company.
2020 - The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos, as Trump repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry and personal jabs and the two men talked over each other.
2021 - A judge in Los Angeles suspended Britney Spears' father from the conservatorship that had controlled her life and money for 13 years, saying the arrangement reflected a "toxic environment."
2022 - Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark.
Birthdays
23 - Maddie Dean (model)
29 - Clara Mamet (actress)
29 - Halsey (singer)
33 - Phillip Philips (singer)
33 - Doug Brochu (actor)
35 - Kevin Durant (basketball player)
38 - Calvin Johnson (football player)
42 - Kelly McCreary (actress)
43 - Chrissy Metz (actress)
43 - Zachary Levi (actor)
47 - Ninel Conde (actress)
49 - Alexis Cruz (actress)
52 - Rachel Cronin (actress)
53 - Natasha Gregson Wagner (actres)
53 - Emily Lloyd (actress)
53 - Brad Cotter (singer)
54 - Erika Eleniak (actress)
55 - Luke Goss (actor)
57 - Ben Miles (actor)
57 - Jill Whelan (actress)
61 - Roger Bart (actor)
66 - Andrew "Dice" Clay (actor/comedian)
67 - Suzzy Roche (singer)
67 - Sebastian Coe (runner)
70 - Drake Hogestyn (actor)
75 - Bryant Gumbel (TV host)
77 - Patricia Hodge (actress)
81 - Ian McShane (actor)
93 - Richard Bonynge (conductor)
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Today in Sports History - September 29
1900 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Walter C. "Bummy" Booth with a 17-0 exhibition win over Lincoln High.
1906 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach Amos Foster with a 56-0 win over Hastings.
1913 - Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson wins his 36th game of the season.
1920 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees establishes the then single-season MLB home run record at 54.
1934 - Nebraska opens the season with a 50-0 win over Wyoming.
1945 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach George "Potsy" Clark with a 20-0 loss to Oklahoma.
1951 - #12 Nebraska opens the season with a 28-7 loss to TCU.
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.
1956 - #8 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 34-7.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds before relocating to San Francisco the following season.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Michigan 25-13.
1963 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals plays in his final MLB game, where he collects his 3,630th career hit.
1966 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his third career 300-plus strikeout season.
1969 - Punter Steve O'Neal of the New York Jets kicks a record 98-yard punt in a game against the Denver Broncos.
1973 - #2 Nebraska defeats Wisconsin 20-16.
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.
1979 - #6 Nebraska defeats #18 Penn State 42-17.
1984 - Syracuse upsets #1 Nebraska 17-9.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announced her retirement from competitive gymnastics.
1988 - The U.S. men's basketball team defeats Australia 78-49 to take the bronze medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea; it would be the final time the U.S. would be represented by a team that didn't feature NBA players.
1990 - #8 Nebraska defeats Oregon State 31-7.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.
1996 - The Baltimore Orioles end the regular season with a MLB record 257 home runs.
1996 - The Houston Astros retire Nolan Ryan's #34.
2001 - #4 Nebraska defeats Missouri 36-3.
2002 - Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander sets an NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with five in the first half of a 48-23 win over the Minnesota Vikings.
2005 - The Chicago White Sox win their division and become just the 10th team in MLB history to be in first place on every day of the season.
2007 - #25 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 35-17.
2012 - #22 Nebraska defeats Wisconsin 30-27.
2017 - Nebraska defeats Illinois 28-6.
2018 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 42-28.