Today in HistoryTODAY is Friday, September 29, the 272nd day of 2006. There are 93 days left in the year.

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

In 1918, Allied forces scored a breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during the First World War.

In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders signed the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Any man should be happy who is allowed the patience of his wife, the tolerance of his children and the affection of waiters.” — Michael Arlen, English novelist (1895-1956).