Sep 29 1952

John Cobb dies at Loch Ness attempting to break the world water speed record.

Sep 29 1957

An explosion at the Chelyabinsk-40 complex, a Soviet nuclear fuel processing plant, irradiates the nearby city of Kyshtym with strontium-90, cesium-137, and plutonium. This accident releases twice the radioactivity of the Chernobyl incident.

Sep 29 1976

At his birthday party, musician Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shoots his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest, trying to open a soft drink bottle with a .357 magnum. Owens survives and files a lawsuit.

Sep 29 1989

Zsa Zsa Gabor, a person famous for no apparent reason and with no visible means of support, is convicted of slapping a Beverly Hills police officer. Gabor later complains that she was denied a jury of her peers, saying "It was not my class of people, There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor."

Sep 29 1990

The largest drug seizure in U.S. history occurs at a warehouse in the San Fernando valley: federal agents seize $10 million in cash and 21 tons of Medellin cocaine, worth $2 billion.