History for September 29

History for September 29 - On-This-Day.com
Miguel de Cervantes 1547, Horatio Nelson (England) 1758, Gene Autry 1907


László Bíró 1899 - Inventor of the modern ballpoint pen, Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 - Musician, Lech Walesa 1943


1789 - A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.


1943 - U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.


1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuted on CBS Radio.


1953 - "Make Room for Daddy" premiered on ABC-TV.


1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.


1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.

 




1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.


2008 - The Dow Industrial Average lost 777 points. It was the largest one-day decline to date. The drop came after the U.S. House of Representatives had voted down a $700 billion bank bailout plan.