The Tylenol murders: Read the Tribune investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAlso on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1789, Congress officially established a regular army under the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n
In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia\u2019s Sudetenland.<\/p>\n
In 1954, Willie Mays of the New York Giants made a running, over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Vic Wirtz of the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series; \u201cThe Catch\u201d would become one of the most famous plays in baseball history.<\/p>\n
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed an act creating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n
In 1988, the U.S. space shuttle program resumed after a 32-month suspension following the 1986 Challenger disaster with the launch of Discovery, carrying a crew of five astronauts, from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Discovery\u2019s crew deployed a satellite and conducted science experiments before returning to Earth with a landing on Oct. 3 at Edwards Air Force Base in California.<\/p>\n
In 1990, the construction of Washington National Cathedral concluded, 83 years to the day after its foundation stone was laid in a ceremony attended by President Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n
In 2005, John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the nation\u2019s 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Tom Price resigned as President Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of Health and Human Services amid investigations into his use of costly charter flights for official travel at taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n
In 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.<\/p>\n
In 2021, a judge in Los Angeles suspended Britney Spears\u2019 father from the conservatorship that had controlled her life and money for 13 years, saying the arrangement reflected a \u201ctoxic environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2022, rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian destroyed homes and businesses and left millions in the dark.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays: Former NASA administrator and ex-Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, is 83. Actor Ian McShane is 83. Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 83. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, is 82. Retired TV journalist and sportscaster Bryant Gumbel is 77. Olympic gold medal runner Sebastian Coe is 69. Rock musician Les Claypool is 62. Actor Zachary Levi is 45. Actor Chrissy Metz (TV: \u201cThis Is Us\u201d) is 45. Actor Kelly McCreary (TV: \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d) is 44. Football Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson is 40. NBA All-Star Kevin Durant is 37. Pop singer Halsey is 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2025. There are 93 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,210,472,5386,1818,1370,108,50,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-263432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-history","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-national-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115286830330282804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}