Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2008. There are 93 days left in the year. The Jewish

Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2008. There are 93 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana begins at sunset. On this date in 1978, Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1789, the U.S. War Department establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. In 1829, London’s reorganized police force, which becomes known as Scotland Yard, goes on duty. In 1918, Allied forces begin their decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I. In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement, which is aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claims the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.) In 1988, the space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America’s return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.

September 29, 1983: An angry crowd of 100 protestors voice their opposition to the construction of a second nuclear power facility at Shippingport, Pa. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Electric Power Co. brings a tractor-trailer rig that would haul nuclear waste to Youngstown to demonstrate the safety features of the canisters used on the trucks that would travel through Ohio.

United National Insurance Co. of Philadelphia announces that it will not renew coverage of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department but a company spokesman declines to link the action to a rash of lawsuits filed against the department.

September 29, 1968: Ohio Republicans are told by state Chairman John Andrews not to become complacent leading up to the November election, even though polls show Richard Nixon leading Democrat Hubert Humphrey and independent George Wallace.

Five South Side teenagers are spending the weekend in the Mahoning County Juvenile Detention Center after they were spotted breaking soft drink bottles in front of St. Patrick Church.

September 29, 1958: A Vindicator photographer and newsman catch racketeer S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples running from a private car toward the Mahoning County Jail on a Monday morning. Confronted by a reporter, Naples, who is serving a six month sentence for gambling, denies he had been free for the weekend and said he had left the jail only for an hour to be treated by his doctor for a bad back.

Mahoning County officials are advised by Auditor Charles B. Rayburn to tighten their belts for the remainder of the year because the county will have no money to supplement departmental budgets.

September 29, 1933: John Dillinger, alleged bank robber in several states, is picked up in Dayton. Dillinger is believed to have been one of the robbers of the Gully Bank in Farrell.

After nearly two months of examining thousands of home mortgages as manager of the Home Owners Loan Corp.’s Youngstown office, Alfred Leibman is convinced that the corporation will pull homes here out of foreclosure and help return prosperity. Applications have been received from 2,345 local residents for $6.7 million in bonds that have been tentatively approved.