SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Today is Saturday, September 29, the 273rd day of 2012. There are 93 days left in the year.

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, NY Metropolitans beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at the Polo Grounds in NYC

1936 ― Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign

1944 ― Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia

1957 ― 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery, West Pakistan)

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

1988 ― Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 200m woman's record (21.34)

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