TODAY IN HISTORY - SEPTEMBER 29TH

1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.

1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985) is born.

1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858) dies.

1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (d. 2007) is born.

1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist is born.

1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American journalist and sportscaster is born.

1975 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890) dies.

1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player is born.

1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.

2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.