It happened on September 29
Jerry Lee Lewis, rock'n'roll singer, 74;
2008 A $700bn rescue package for the US economy was rejected by members of the House of Representatives.
1952 British and world water-speed record holder John Cobb was killed on Loch Ness in a 240mph crash.
1941 A Nazi death squad murdered 30,000 Russian Jews in Kiev.
1899 Sir Billy Butlin, holiday camp pioneer, was born.
1829 London's first police force was mobilised and its men nicknamed "Bobbies" or "Peelers" after Sir Robert Peel, the man who founded it.
THOUGHT Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.
- Joe Orton, English dramatist
BIRTHDAYS Colin Dexter, author, 79; Jerry Lee Lewis, rock'n'roll singer, 74; Ian McShane, actor, 67; Luke and Matt Goss, singers (Bros), 41.
It happened on September 29