September 29 - This Day in History

September 29: General Interest
2005: Reporter Judith Miller released from prison

On this day in 2005, New York Times reporter Judith Miller is released from a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia, after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the leaking of the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame. Miller had been behind bars since July 6, 2005, for refusing to reveal a confidential source and testify before a grand jury that was looking into the so-called Plame Affair... read more


American Revolution
1780 : British spy sentenced to death
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-spy-sentenced-to-death


Automotive
1913 : Inventor Rudolf Diesel vanishes
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/inventor-rudolf-diesel-vanishes


Civil War
1864 : Union tries to break stalemate in Virginia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-new-market-heights-chaffins-farmfort-harrison


Cold War
1953 : Russians want the American dream
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/russians-want-the-american-dream


Crime
1982 : Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cyanide-laced-tylenol-kills-six

2006 : School principal murdered by student in Wisconsin
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/school-principal-murdered-by-student-in-wisconsin


Disaster
1957 : Trains collide in Pakistan
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/train-crash-in-pakistan


General Interest
1758 : Lord Nelson born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lord-nelson-born

1941 : Babi Yar massacre begins
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/babi-yar-massacre-begins

1982 : The Tylenol murders
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tylenol-murders

1988 : American woman climbs Everest
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-woman-climbs-everest


Hollywood
1913 : "Message filmmaker" Stanley Kramer is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/message-filmmaker-stanley-kramer-is-born


Literary
1547 : Miguel de Cervantes is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/miguel-de-cervantes-is-born


Music
1907 : Gene Autry, "The Singing Cowboy," is born
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gene-autry-quotthe-singing-cowboyquot-is-born


Old West
1907 : The great singing cowboy, Gene Autry, is born in Texas
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-singing-cowboy-gene-autry-is-born-in-texas


Presidential
1942 : JFK thanks Clare Booth Luce for good-luck coin
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jfk-thanks-clare-booth-luce-for-good-luck-coin


Sports
1954 : Willie Mays makes catch
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/willie-mays-makes-catch


Vietnam War
1965 : Hanoi announces that downed pilots will be treated as war criminals
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hanoi-announces-that-downed-pilots-will-be-treated-as-war-criminals

1969 : Charges dropped against Green Berets
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/charges-dropped-against-green-berets


World War I
1918 : Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allied-forces-break-through-the-hindenburg-line


World War II
1939 : Nazis and communists divvy up Poland
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nazis-and-communists-divvy-up-poland