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Today in History ~ October 29
Republic Day, celebrated in Turkey.
Events1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in London. He had been charged with plotting against King James I. [H]
1682 - William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.
1787 - Opera "Don Giovanni" premiers in (Prague)
1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1872 - J S Risdon patents metal windmill
1888 - Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
1889 - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
1901 - Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for the assassination of President McKinley.
1905 - Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fatally injured
1914 - Russia declares war on Turkey, Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1915 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1923 - "Runnin' Wild" (introduced the Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 - The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
1929 - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression". Over 16 million shares were traded in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange and thousands of investors were wiped out as margins were called in. [H]
1932 - French liner Normandie is launched
1940 - Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1941 - Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
1942 - 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
1942 - Alaska highway completed
1942 - Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 - Nazis murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1943 - 3 allied officers escape camp Stalag Luft 3
1945 - 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1945 - Happy Chandler, resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commissioner
1954 - Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1956 - International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1956, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered as NBC's nightly television newscast, replacing "The Camel News Caravan."
1956 - During the Suez Canal crisis, Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
1957 - Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1958 - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 - Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1960 - Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
1964 - Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1966 - National Organization of Women founded
1967 - MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in NYC
1969 - Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
1969 - The first connection on what would become the Internet was made when bits of data flowed between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute. This was the beginning of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet developed by the Department of Defense.
1974 - Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1974 - Former President Nixon was listed in critical condition after surgery to combat a potentially lethal blood clot. He eventually recovered.
1975 - Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim
1979 - On the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters tried but failed to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
1982 - Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1988 - 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1990 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said the gulf crisis must be settled peacefully.
1991 - On the eve of a historic Middle East peace conference in Spain, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met at the Soviet Embassy in Madrid and expressed hope for a positive outcome.
1991 - In a first-ever meeting between Soviet and Israeli heads of state, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Shamir conferred at the Soviet embassy.
1901 - President Bush imposed trade sanctions against Haiti to pressure its new leaders to restore ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
1992 - Alger Hiss said Russia had cleared him of the charge of being a Communist spy that sent him to prison for four years and helped launch Richard Nixon's political career.
1994 - National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
1994 - NY Lotto pays $60 million+
1994 - A Colorado man was arrested after he sprayed the White House with bullets from an assault rifle. President Clinton was inside at the time, but no one was injured.
1998 - Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who in 1962 became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth,, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier. At 77, he was the oldest person to travel in space.
2000 - The wounded destroyer USS Cole departed Aden, Yemen, towed by tugboats to a Norwegian heavy-lift ship to be taken home to repair the gaping hole in its side; 17 sailors were killed in Oct. 12. suicide bombing attack
2001 - The Justice Department issued a warning against new terror attacks, the 2nd such warning in less than a month. Attorney General Ashcroft said the intelligence leading up to the warning was credible but not specific.
2002 - President George W. Bush, elected in a chaotic tableau of ballot mishaps and court challenges, signed legislation to help reduce ballot-counting errors and ensure greater citizen participation in the election process.
Birthdays Today
1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher
1656 - Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet)
1740 - James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
1762 - Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet (Elegies)
1815 - Daniel Emmett (composer: Dixie)
1857 - Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal)
1878 - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II)
1879 - Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932)
1882 - Jean Giraudoux, Bellac France, playwright (Eglantine, Provinciales)
1884 - Bela Lugosi, Lugos Hungary, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
1891 - Douglas Montgomery (actor: Harmony Lane, Little Women)
1891 - Fanny Brice (Borach) (actress: Ziegfeld Follies; comedienne: Baby Snooks; subject of Funny Girl)
1897 - [Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
1899 - Akim Tamiroff (actor: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anastasia, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Hotel Paradiso, Lord Jim, The Story of Louis Pasteur)
1920 - William Juzda (hockey)
1921 - Bill Mauldin (Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist: [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie)
1922 - Neal Hefti (composer: TV's Batman theme, The Odd Couple theme; score: Sex and the Single Girl; Neal Hefti and His Orchestra: The Kate Smith Show)
1925 - Zoot (John Haley) Sims (musician:tenor/alto sax: groups: Benny Goodman Band, Woody Herman Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Birdland All-Stars, Jazz at Carnegie Hall)
1926 - Jon[athan Stewart] Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
1932 - Dick Garmaker (basketball)
1937 - Sonny Osborne (musician: 5-string banjo, singer: baritone: group: Osborne Brothers: Up this Hill and Down, Rocky Top, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia Pinewoods)
1939 - Pete Richert (baseball)
1940 - John Gotti, mafia head
1941 - Andy Russell (football: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker: Siper Bowl IX, X)
1944 - Denny Laine (Brian Hines) (musician: guitar, singer: groups: The Moody Blues: Go Now; Wings: My Love, Live & Let Die, Helen Wheels, Jet, Band on the Run)
1944 - Ken Reeves (football)
1945 - Melba Moore (singer: You Stepped into My Life; actress: The Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show)
1946 - Peter Green (musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Man of the World; solo: LP: The End of the Game)
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss (Academy Award-winning actor: The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland's Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama's House, Karen; TV narrator: American Chronicles)
1948 - Kate Jackson (actress: Charlie's Angels, The Rookies, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Baby Boom, Killer Bees, Satan's School for Girls, Loverboy)
1950 - Ed Dyck (hockey)
1953 - Denis Potvin (hockey: shares record for most goals scored by a defenseman in a playoff game [3]: New York Islanders vs. Edmonton Oilers [4/17/1981])
1961 - Randy (Steven Randall) Jackson (singer: group: The Jackson Five: I'll be There; brother of Michael, La Toya, Janet, Jermaine, Tito, etc.)
1971 - Winona Ryder (Horowitz) (actress: Little Women, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas)
Famous deaths
0490 - Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason [H]
1783 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician co-wrote Encyclopedia with Denis Diderot), dies at 66
1829 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist (Wolfgang's sister)
1853 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68
1876 - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
1885 - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
1901 - President McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1947 - Former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston died in Baltimore at age 83.
1957 - Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71
1962 - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77
1987 - Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
1990 - William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer
1996 - James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
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