Today, Monday, September 29, is the 272nd day of 2025. There are 93 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On September 29, 1954, Willie Mays of the New York Giants made a running, over-the-shoulder catching a ball hit by Vic Wirtz van de Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the World Series of 1954; “The Catch” would become one of the most famous plays in baseball history.
Also on this date:
In 1789 the congress officially founded a regular army under the American Constitution.
In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded Munich’s agreement, which was aimed at admiring Adolf Hitler by Nazi -Annexation of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law that created the national donation for the humanities and the national gift for art.
In 1982, extra strength Tylenol capsules with deadly cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago region; The case, which led to legislation and packaging improvements to scare the mess with the mess with the product, remains unsolved.
In 1988 the US Space Shuttle program resumed after a 32-month suspension after the Challenger disaster in 1986 with the launch of discovery, with a crew of five astronauts, from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Discovery crew started a satellite and carried out science experiments before he returned to the earth with a landing on 3 October at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1990, the construction of the National Cathedral of Washington, 83 years until the day after the foundation, was laid during a ceremony attended by President Theodore Roosevelt.
In 2005 John G. Roberts became Jr. sworn as the 17th supreme judge of the nation after winning the confirmation of the Senate.
In 2017, Tom Price resigned as President of President Donald Trump for Health and Human Services in the midst of research into his use of expensive charter flights for official travel on taxpayers.
In 2018, Tesla and her CEO, Elon Musk, came in to pay a total of $ 40 million to arrange a government case stating that Musk investors with misleading statements about a proposed buy -out of the company had deceived.
In 2021, a judge in Los Angeles suspended the father of Britney Spears of the conservatory that had checked her life and money for 13 years and said that the scheme reflected a ‘poisonous environment’.
In 2022, rescue teams sent boats and waded by flooded streets to save thousands of Floridians who were trapped after Hurricane had destroyed houses and companies and left millions in the dark.
Today’s birthdays:
- Former NASA manager and former sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, is 83.
- Actor Ian McShane is 83.
- Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 83.
- Nobel riveswinner Lech Walesa, former President of Poland, is 82.
- Retired TV journalist and sports car Bryant Gumbel is 77.
- Olympic gold medal buyer Sebastian Coe is 69.
- Rock musician Les ClayPool is 62.
- Actor Zachary Levi is 45.
- Actor Chrissy Metz (TV: “This is US”) is 45.
- Actor Kelly McCreary (TV: “Gray’s Anatomy”) is 44.
- Football Hall by Famer Calvin Johnson is 40.
- NBA All-Star Kevin Durant is 37.
- Pop singer Halsey is 31.
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