Today is Monday, September 29, the 273rd day of 2008. There are 93 days left in the year.
1650 _ Henry Robinson opens first marriage bureau (England)
1789 _ U.S. War Dept established a regular army
1793 _ Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1829 _ Scotland Yard formed in London
1849 _ First passenger train service to Peekskill, N.Y. (New Haven Railroad)
1936 _ Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign
1963 _ Rolling Stones first tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Brothers)
1979 _ Pope John Paul II becomes first pope to visit Ireland
1986 _ USSR releases U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1988 _ U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace Prize