Saturday, October 29

This Day In History

• 1682   The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pa.
  
• 1901   President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
  
• 1911   American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer died at age 64.
  
• 1923   The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
  
• 1929   Over 16 million shares were traded in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange and thousands of investors were wiped out on this day. Prices plummeted, millions lost billions, and the buying boom was over. The market crashed. Astrologer Evangeline Adams had seen into the future and predicted the crash   along with other events that actually occurred, like Lindbergh’s flight   but didn’t listen to her own predictions. She lost $100,000. The Great Depression was depressing, indeed!
  
• 1940   Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number   158   in America's first peacetime military draft.
  
• 1947   Former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston died at age 83.
  
• 1956   Israel launched an invasion of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
  
• 1956   ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'' premiered as NBC's nightly television newscast.
  
• 1964   Thieves made off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
  
• 1967   The musical ''Hair'' opened off-Broadway.
  
• 1987   Jazz great Woody Herman died at age 74.
  
• 1998   South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.
  
• 1998   John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space 36 years later, at age 77.
  
• 2002   A memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in Minneapolis turned into a virtual political rally as friends and relatives urged Minnesotans to honor his memory by putting a Democrat in his seat.
  

Happy Birthday To

• 1891   Fanny Brice (Borach) (actress: Ziegfeld Follies; comedienne: Baby Snooks; subject of film: Funny Girl; died May 29, 1951)
  
• 1921   Bill Mauldin (Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist: [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie)
  
• 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, The Education of Max Bickford; 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)
  
• 1971   Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowitz) (actress: Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas)