History of 29 September<\/p>\n
1902<\/strong> – David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee were married.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The radio quiz show “Double or Nothing” debuted on the Mutual Radio Network.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower\u00a0and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship\u00a0Nelson<\/i>.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – “The Adventures of Sam Spade” debuted on CBS Radio.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – “Make Room for Daddy” premiered on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – “A View From the Bridge,” a play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco,\u00a0CA.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – “My Three Sons” debuted on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President John F. Kennedy\u00a0nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – “My Favorite Martian” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – “The Judy Garland Show” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.<\/p>\n 1977<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – In Chicago,\u00a0IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – “A Chorus Line” with performance number 3,389 became the longest-running show on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the\u00a0Marita Anne<\/i>\u00a0carrying seven tons of\u00a0U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world’s most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The space shuttle\u00a0Discovery<\/i>\u00a0took off from Cape Canaveral in\u00a0Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the\u00a0Challenger<\/i>\u00a0disaster.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – “Millie’s Book” by First Lady Barbara Bush was the best-selling non-fiction book in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Bosnia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned to the land that had been taken by force.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyists buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Hasbro announced plans to introduce an action figure of retired\u00a0U.S.\u00a0General Colin Powell.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – In China, Canton Tower became operational.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> \u2013 The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for the atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Over 42 people are\u00a0killed\u00a0by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army\u00a0conducts “surgical strikes”\u00a0against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.<\/sup><\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Violence and low turnout mar the\u00a02019 Afghan presidential election.<\/sup><\/p>\n 2019<\/strong> \u2013 At least 59 people are reported dead due to monsoon rains in\u00a0Uttar Pradesh\u00a0and\u00a0Bihar, India. 350 people have died this year due to rain in\u00a0India,\u00a0Nepal, and\u00a0Bangladesh.<\/p>\n History of 29 September 1902 – David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater. 1930 – Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. 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