■ In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with the strength of several hundred men. ■ In 1907, the foundation stone was laid for the Washington National Cathedral. ■ In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. ■ In 1943, General Dwight D.