Today In History

In 1789: The War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

In 1829: London’s reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty.

In 1918: Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I.

In 1943: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.

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: Seven people in the Chicago area died after unwittingly taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.