Today in the history of Monday, October 29, 2018 | Today in history

We are Monday, October 29th, the 302nd day of 2018. There are 63 days left in the year.

On October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed in a panic and thousands of investors were wiped out at the start of the US "Great Depression".

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London for treason.

1787: The world premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" takes place in Prague.

1901: The badbadination of President William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.

1923: The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed.

1956: During the crisis of the Suez Cbad, Israel invades the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" was first created by NBC television news.

1960: A chartered plane carrying the football team of California Polytechnic State University crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, causing 22 casualties on board.

1964: The thieves separate from the star of India and other jewels of the American Museum of Natural History of New York. (The star and most other gems were recovered, three men were found guilty of stealing them.)

1979: On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Stock Market Crash, anti-nuclear protesters attempt, unsuccessfully, to close the New York Stock Exchange.

1987: Following Robert H. Bork's confirmed defeat in the US Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announced the election of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that collapsed under the revelations of Ginsburg marijuana use. The great jazzman Woody Herman died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.

1998: Senator John Glenn, 77 years old, returns to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, tracing the path he had traced for American astronauts 36 years earlier.

2004: Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, for the first time directly recognizes that he ordered the September 11 attacks and told America "that the best way to avoid another Manhattan" was to stop threatening the safety of Muslims.

2012: Storm Sandy landed in New Jersey and slowly marched inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread blackouts; the storm and its consequences were blamed on at least 182 deaths in the United States.

Ten years ago: at least 215 people were killed by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in southwestern Pakistan. Nearly 50 hours after the start of Game 5, but in the rain, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in a three-run sprint to win the World Series for the first time since 1980.

Five years ago: Medicare Director Marilyn Tavenner, whose agency oversaw the "Obamacare" website, apologized to Congress for the serious technical problems that have plagued the online roll-out of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. . MON. confirmed for the first time in more than 10 years a polio epidemic in Syria, warning that the disease was threatening to spread among half a million children who had never been immunized because of the civil war.

A year ago: All Houston Texans, with the exception of 10, took a knee at the National Anthem, reacting to a remark from team owner, Bob McNair, to other NFL owners that "we can not let inmates run the prison." The Puerto Rican electricity company said the agency was canceling its $ 300 million contract with a small Montana company for the restoration of the island 's power system. the company was based in the home town of Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke. Dennis Banks, who participated in the founding of the American Indian Movement and took part in sometimes violent uprisings against the US government, died at age 80.

Bluegrbad singer-musician Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers) is 81 years old. Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is 80 years old. Country singer Lee Clayton is 76 years old. Rock musician Denny Laine is 74 years old. Singer Melba Moore is 73 years old. The musician Peter Green is 72 years old. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 71 years old. The actress Kate Jackson is 70 years old. Country musician Steve Kellough (Wild Horses) is 62 years old. The actor Dan Castellaneta (TV: "The Simpsons") is 61 years old. The comic artist Tom Wilson ("Ziggy") is 61 years old. Finola Hughes is 59 years old. Singer Randy Jackson is 57 years old. Rock musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 53 years old. The actress Joely Fisher is 51 years old. The rapper Paris is 51 years old. The actor Rufus Sewell is 51 years old. The rock singer SA Martinez (311) is 49 years old. The actress Winona Ryder is 47 years old. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 46 years old. The actress Gabrielle Union is 46 years old. The actor Trevor Lissauer is 45 years old. The actress Milena Govich is 42 years old The actor Jon Abrahams is 41 years old. The actor Brendan Fehr is 41 years old. The actor Ben Foster i s 38. The rock musician Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend) is 34 years old. Actress India Eisley is 25 years old.

"Many politicians have taken absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. – David Brinkley, American Broadcasting Journalist (1920-2003).

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