TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 29
539 BC King Cyrus “the Great” of Persia marches into Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home
1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh’s enemies spread rumors that he was opposed the accession of King James.
1682 William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.
1814 The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City.
1863 Red Cross founded
1901 Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY.
1923 Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.
1929 “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression”
1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1945 The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1956 “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” premiered on NBC. The show replaced “The Camel News Caravan.”
1964 The Star of India and other gems were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
1966 National Organization of Women founded
1969 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1992 Depo Provera, a contraceptive, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
1998 South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.
2004 European leaders signed the European Union’s first constitution.
2005 Bombings in Delhi . 3 separate bombings in India’s capital city of Delhi a few days before the important festival of Diwali left about 60 people dead.
2012 Hurricane Sandy hits the US’s eastern coast. Hurricane Sandy, a category 2 storm by the time it made landfall in the US, hit the US’s eastern coast.
2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
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