Today is Sunday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2013. There are 93 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 29, 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• On this date:
• In 1829, London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.
• In 1862, Prussia's newly appointed minister-president, Otto von Bismarck, delivered a speech to the country's parliament in which he declared the issue of German unification would be decided "not through speeches and majority decisions" but by "iron and blood (Eisen und Blut)." (Some references give the date of this speech as Sept. 30, 1862.)
• In 1907, the foundation stone was laid for the Washington National Cathedral, which wasn't fully completed until this date in 1990.
• In 1912, movie director Michelangelo Antonioni was born in Ferrara, Italy.
• In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
• In 1957, the New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-1. (The Giants moved to San Francisco.)
• In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)
• In 1986, the Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined on spying charges.
• In 1987, Henry Ford II, longtime chairman of Ford Motor Co., died in Detroit at age 70.
• In 2001, President George W. Bush condemned Afghanistan's Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers as the United States pressed its mili

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