TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 29
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning the wells
1399 King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate his throne.
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean.
1567 War of Religion breaks out in France – Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
1789 Congress votes to create a U.S. army.
1829 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital
1833 A civil war breaks out in Spain between Carlists, who believe Don Carlos deserves the throne, and supporters of Queen Isabella.
1932 A five-day work week is established for General Motors workers.
1941 30,000 Jews are gunned down in Kiev when Heinrich Himmler sends four strike squads to exterminate Soviet Jewish civilians and other “undesirables.”
1962 A new report by the department of Labor Statistics shows that the average weekly take home pay of a factory worker with three dependents is now $94.87.
1962 The popular Argentinian comic strip Mafalda beings publication, in the weekly Primera Plana; focusing on a six-year-old girl (Mafalda) and her friends, it has been called the Argentinian Peanuts.
1962 U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized 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.
1977 The Japanese government has agreed to the Red Army terrorist demands of $6,000,000 plus the release of 9 terrorists for the release of the 146 persons held hostage by the Red Army Terrorists from an airliner hijacked and now held in Bangladesh
1979 John Paul II becomes the first pope ever to visit Ireland.
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.
1983 The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.
1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello impeached for corruptions; he was the youngest president in the nation’s history, taking office at age 40 in 1990.
1994 The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
2006 In Cazenovia, Wisconsin fifteen year old student Eric Hainstock shot and killed his principal John Klang. Klang tried to stop the student and wrestled him to the ground but was shot in the confrontation.
2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 777.68 points in the wake of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcies, the largest single-day point loss in Wall Street history.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
