SEPTEMBER 29
1979:Pope John Paul II makes an impassioned appeal for peace between
Catholics and Protestants before a crowd of 300,000 people in Drogheda,
Ireland. It is the first visit to Ireland by a pope.
1988: Stacy Allison becomes the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1990: Construction of Washington National Cathedral is
completed, exactly 83 years to the day after President Theodore
Roosevelt presided over the laying of its cornerstone.
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