THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Today is Thursday, September 29, the 272nd day of 2011. There are 93 days left in the year.

1650 ― Henry Robinson opens first marriage bureau (England)

1793 ― Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine

1849 ― First passenger train service to Peekskill, N.Y. (New Haven Railroad)

1853 ― Emigrant ship ``Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348

1890 ― First pro baseball game, N.Y. Metropolitans beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in five innings at the Polo Grounds in NYC

1936 ― Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign

1944 ― Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia

1963 ― Rolling Stones first tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)

1986 ― USSR releases U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges

1988 ― U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace Prize