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 - Sir Robert Peel's police force, the "bobbies," began operations at Scotland Yard.
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 died just one month after becoming leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - Seven people died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that were 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 blasted off, the first American staffed space mission since the Challenger explosion.
1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer after he had pulled over her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates. (As part of her sentence, Gabor ended up serving three days in jail.)
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 of the United States Supreme Court.
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.
2017 - The United States warned Americans to stay away from Cuba, and ordered home more than half of the American diplomatic corps there; the administration began referring to the mysterious health ailments affecting Americans there as “attacks” rather than “incidents” but acknowledged that neither Cuban nor US investigators could figure out who or what was responsible.
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 - In a major victory for pop star Britney Spears, a judge in Los Angeles suspended the singer’s father from the conservatorship that had controlled her life and money for 13 years, saying the arrangement reflected a “toxic environment.” (The judge would end the conservatorship weeks later.)
Birthdays
22 - Maddie Dean (model)
28 - Clara Mamet (actress)
28 - Halsey (singer)
32 - Phillip Phillips (singer)
32 - Doug Brochu (actor)
34 - Kevin Durant (basketball player)
36 - Lo Bosworth (reality star)
37 - Calvin Johnson (football player)
41 - Kelly McCreary (actress)
42 - Chrissy Metz (actress)
42 - Zachary Levi (actor)
46 - Ninel Conde (actress)
48 - Alexis Cruz (actress)
51 - Rachel Cronin (actress)
52 - Natasha Gregson Wagner (actress)
52 - Emily Lloyd (actress)
52 - Brad Cotter (singer)
53 - Erika Eleniak (actress)
54 - Luke Goss (actor)
56 - Ben Miles (actor)
56 - Jill Whelan (actress)
60 - Roger Bart (actor)
65 - Andrew "Dice" Clay (comedian/actor)
69 - Drake Hogestyn (actor)
74 - Bryant Gumbel (TV host)
76 - Patricia Hodge (actress)
80 - Ian McShane (actor)
87 - Jerry Lee Lewis (singer)
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Today in Sports History - September 29
1900 - Nebraska opens the season with a 17-0 exhibition win over Lincoln High.
1906 - Nebraska opens the season with a 56-0 win over Hastings.
1913 - Pitcher Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators wins his 36th game of the season.
1920 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees establishes a new single-season home run record with 54.
1934 - Nebraska opens the season with a 50-0 win over Wyoming.
1945 - Nebraska opens the season with a 20-0 loss to Oklahoma.
1946 - The Rams play their first NFL game in Los Angeles after having relocated from Cleveland.
1951 - #12 Nebraska opens the season with a 28-7 loss to TCU.
1954 - Willie Mays of the New York Giants makes his iconic over-the-shoulder catch during game one of the World Series.
1956 - #8 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 34-7.
1957 - The New York Giants played their final baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York City. (The team would relocate to San Francisco the following season.)
1962 - Nebraska defeats Michigan 25-13.
1963 - Stan Musial plays his final game where he records his 3,630th and final hit.
1966 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers produces his third 300+ strikeout season.
1973 - #2 Nebraska defeats Wisconsin 20-16.
1977 - Muhammad Ali defeats Earnie Shavers by unanimous decision to win the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles.
1979 - #6 Nebraska defeats #18 Penn State 42-17.
1984 - Syracuse upsets #1 Nebraska 17-9.
1985 - The Dallas Cowboys sack Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon an NFL record-tying 12 times.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announce her retirement from gymnastics.
1988 - The United States men's basketball team defeats Australia 78-49 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. (It would mark the final U.S. Olympic team that featured strictly amateur players.)
1990 - #8 Nebraska defeats Oregon State 31-7.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced his return to basketball.
1996 - The Baltimore Orioles end the season with a major league 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 Shuan Alexander sets an NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with five in the first half of a 48-23 win against the Minnesota Vikings.
2005 - After clinching a division title, the Chicago White Sox become the 10th team in MLB history to be in first place on every day of the regular 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.
2018 - The New York Yankees establish a new MLB record with 265 home runs on the season.
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 - Sir Robert Peel's police force, the "bobbies," began operations at Scotland Yard.
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 died just one month after becoming leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - Seven people died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that were 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 blasted off, the first American staffed space mission since the Challenger explosion.
1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer after he had pulled over her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates. (As part of her sentence, Gabor ended up serving three days in jail.)
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 of the United States Supreme Court.
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.
2017 - The United States warned Americans to stay away from Cuba, and ordered home more than half of the American diplomatic corps there; the administration began referring to the mysterious health ailments affecting Americans there as “attacks” rather than “incidents” but acknowledged that neither Cuban nor US investigators could figure out who or what was responsible.
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 - In a major victory for pop star Britney Spears, a judge in Los Angeles suspended the singer’s father from the conservatorship that had controlled her life and money for 13 years, saying the arrangement reflected a “toxic environment.” (The judge would end the conservatorship weeks later.)
Birthdays
22 - Maddie Dean (model)
28 - Clara Mamet (actress)
28 - Halsey (singer)
32 - Phillip Phillips (singer)
32 - Doug Brochu (actor)
34 - Kevin Durant (basketball player)
36 - Lo Bosworth (reality star)
37 - Calvin Johnson (football player)
41 - Kelly McCreary (actress)
42 - Chrissy Metz (actress)
42 - Zachary Levi (actor)
46 - Ninel Conde (actress)
48 - Alexis Cruz (actress)
51 - Rachel Cronin (actress)
52 - Natasha Gregson Wagner (actress)
52 - Emily Lloyd (actress)
52 - Brad Cotter (singer)
53 - Erika Eleniak (actress)
54 - Luke Goss (actor)
56 - Ben Miles (actor)
56 - Jill Whelan (actress)
60 - Roger Bart (actor)
65 - Andrew "Dice" Clay (comedian/actor)
69 - Drake Hogestyn (actor)
74 - Bryant Gumbel (TV host)
76 - Patricia Hodge (actress)
80 - Ian McShane (actor)
87 - Jerry Lee Lewis (singer)
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Today in Sports History - September 29
1900 - Nebraska opens the season with a 17-0 exhibition win over Lincoln High.
1906 - Nebraska opens the season with a 56-0 win over Hastings.
1913 - Pitcher Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators wins his 36th game of the season.
1920 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees establishes a new single-season home run record with 54.
1934 - Nebraska opens the season with a 50-0 win over Wyoming.
1945 - Nebraska opens the season with a 20-0 loss to Oklahoma.
1946 - The Rams play their first NFL game in Los Angeles after having relocated from Cleveland.
1951 - #12 Nebraska opens the season with a 28-7 loss to TCU.
1954 - Willie Mays of the New York Giants makes his iconic over-the-shoulder catch during game one of the World Series.
1956 - #8 Ohio State defeats Nebraska 34-7.
1957 - The New York Giants played their final baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York City. (The team would relocate to San Francisco the following season.)
1962 - Nebraska defeats Michigan 25-13.
1963 - Stan Musial plays his final game where he records his 3,630th and final hit.
1966 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers produces his third 300+ strikeout season.
1973 - #2 Nebraska defeats Wisconsin 20-16.
1977 - Muhammad Ali defeats Earnie Shavers by unanimous decision to win the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight boxing titles.
1979 - #6 Nebraska defeats #18 Penn State 42-17.
1984 - Syracuse upsets #1 Nebraska 17-9.
1985 - The Dallas Cowboys sack Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon an NFL record-tying 12 times.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announce her retirement from gymnastics.
1988 - The United States men's basketball team defeats Australia 78-49 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. (It would mark the final U.S. Olympic team that featured strictly amateur players.)
1990 - #8 Nebraska defeats Oregon State 31-7.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced his return to basketball.
1996 - The Baltimore Orioles end the season with a major league 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 Shuan Alexander sets an NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with five in the first half of a 48-23 win against the Minnesota Vikings.
2005 - After clinching a division title, the Chicago White Sox become the 10th team in MLB history to be in first place on every day of the regular 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.
2018 - The New York Yankees establish a new MLB record with 265 home runs on the season.
