Historical Events on September 29 (Part 2)

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• 1975 American television game show "Three for the Money" hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV; cancelled after 8 weeks
• 1975 Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan

• 1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1975 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
• 1976 "Alice" debuts on CBS-TV
• 1976 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law

• 1976 San Francisco Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
• 1976 Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon

• 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1977 "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" by Meco hits #1

• 1977 Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship

• 1977 Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam
• 1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
• 1978 "Flying High," debuts on CBS
• 1978 "For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV
• 1979 "Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35
• 1979 "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
• 1979 "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" single by Pat Travers peaks at #56
• 1979 "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16
• 1979 "Cruel To Be Kind" single by Nick Lowe peaks at #12

• 1979 "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15
• 1979 "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
• 1979 "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6
• 1979 "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK
• 1979 "What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22
• 1979 Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313
• 1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
• 1979 LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit

• 1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
• 1982 Situation comedy "Cheers" premieres on NBC-TV, starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long
• 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1983 "A Chorus Line" with 3,389 performances becomes the then longest-running Broadway show
• 1983 Beirut airport reopens
• 1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0

• 1984 "(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39
• 1984 "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9
• 1984 "Drive" by Cars peaks at #3
• 1984 "Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66

• 1984 "Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75
• 1984 "Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17
• 1984 "When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14
• 1984 "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84

• 1985 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV

• 1985 "MacGyver" starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
• 1985 1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
• 1985 Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions!
• 1985 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
• 1986 "Airwolf" TV Adventure; moves to USA
• 1986 "Designing Women" TV comedy, debuts on CBS

• 1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
• 1986 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
• 1986 NBC true life drama "Adam: His Song Continues" premieres, sequel to "Adam" (1983)
• 1986 USSR releases American journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges

• 1987 "thirtysomething" debuts on ABC-TV

• 1988 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 launches

• 1988 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1988 East German athlete Christian Schenk beats countryman Torsten Voss by 89 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; Canadian Dave Steen is another 71 points back in third place
• 1988 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
• 1988 Union Station reopens in Washington, D.C.
• 1988 US men's basketball team beats Australia 78-49 to take the bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics; last time US represented by a team that doesn't feature NBA players
• 1988 US retain women's basketball title at he Seoul Olympics with a 77-70 win over Yugoslavia; star guard Teresa Edwards top scores for the Americans with 18 points

• 1990 "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart

• 1990 Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
• 1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time
• 1990 US Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
• 1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years

• 1991 Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic at the Los Coyotes CC; her third LPGA title of the month
• 1992 Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
• 1992 Brazilian Parliament suspends President Fernando Collor de Mello

• 1993 "Grace Under Fire", sitcom starring Brett Butler, debuts on ABC-TV

• 1994 Grammy Award-winning vocal group the Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1994 House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
• 1995 Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
• 1995 Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka
• 1995 Trial for former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson sent to the jury
• 1995 US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
• 1996 "Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC

• 1996 Baltimore Orioles end season with record 257 HRs

• 1996 Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
• 1996 Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs
• 1996 San Diego Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title
• 1997 Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins

• 2000 "In the Mood for Love", Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung released
• 2001 The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication
• 2002 Seattle running back Shaun Alexander sets NFL record for most touchdowns in a half with 5 in 1st half of 48-23 win v Minnesota Vikings at Seahawks Stadium; runs for 4 plus 80-yard reception
• 2003 Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
• 2004 Asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth
• 2004 The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize
• 2005 Amnesty referendum in Algeria
• 2005 Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
• 2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced
• 2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall demolished in a controlled explosion
• 2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, its largest single-day point loss, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual
• 2009 An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami
• 2009 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a third and final Mercury flyby

• 2013 16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria
• 2013 42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria

• 2017 Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff

• 2018 NY Yankees Venezuelan 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres smashes a 2-run homer in 8-5 win v Boston at Fenway Park; Yankees MLB record 265th homer of the season; Giancarlo Stanton adds #266 in 7th

• 2019 Houthi rebels from Yemen claim they have killed 500 Saudi soldiers and captured 2,000 along with military a convoy in Najran region, Saudi Arabia

• 2020 Scientists confirm the existence of three new underground lakes on Mars using radar on Esa's Mars Express spacecraft
• 2021 Britney Spears' father Jamie Spears suspended as her conservator by a judge in Los Angeles after claims of abuse
• 2021 Prison riot between rival drug cartels in Litoral penitentiary, Ecuador, results in 116 deaths, with some beheaded or decapitated
• 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied appoints Najla Bouden Romdhan as Tunisia's and the Arab world's first female prime minister
• 2021 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species of bird, fish and other wildlife extinct, including the ivory-billed woodpecker
• 2023 Duane "Keffe D" Davis arrested for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shukar in Las Vegas [1]
• 2023 Historic levels of rain in New York city create flash floods, shutting down half of the subway system amid the wettest September in 100 years [1]
• 2023 More than 50 people are killed in two suicide attacks in Mastung and Peshawar City, Pakistan, during celebrations for the birth of the prophet Muhammad [1]

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