1929 – America’s Great Depression. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred on October 29, 1929, when Wall Street investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of that event, sometimes called “Black Tuesday,” America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.
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
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris
1552 – Tsar Ivan IV returns to Moscow after conquering the Khanate of Kazan in the Siege of Kazan
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.
1652 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.
1665 – Battle of Mbwila [Ambuila]: Portuguese defeat forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King Antonio I of Kongo / Nvita a Nkanga
1682 – William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.
1692 – Court of Oyer and Terminer, convened for Salem witch trials, dissolved
1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco
1863 – The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
1918 – German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution
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 – America’s Great Depression. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred on October 29, 1929, when Wall Street investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of that event, sometimes called “Black Tuesday,” America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time. https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash
1940 – Secretary of War Henry L Stimson draws the 1st number – #158 – in the 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1942 – Alaska highway completed
1942 – Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union
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.
1948 – Safsaf massacre, Israeli defence forces attack Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee
1954 – Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser disbands the Muslim Brotherhood
1956 – Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.
1957 – Hand grenade explodes in Israel’s Knesset (Parliament)
1963 – Edgar Kaufmann Jr. deeds his family property Fallingwater (1935), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed The United Republic of Tanzania
1966 – The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 – The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
1974 – U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status
1982 – Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1988 – 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1990 – The U.N. Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein’s regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait.
1991 – The U.S. Galileo spacecraft became the first to visit an asteroid (Gaspra).
1997 – Iraq’s Revolution Command Council announces that it will no longer allow US citizens and US aircraft to serve with UN arms inspection teams
1998 – South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.
2001 – ExxonMobil announces that a consortium it leads will spend $4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural gas fields in Russia’s far eastern Sakhalin region
2004 – Arabic news network, Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election
2005 – 3 separate bombings in India’s capital city of Delhi a few days before the important festival of Diwali left about 60 people dead.
2015 – China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
2015 – Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
2019 – 1.5 million people without power in California as utility company turns power off to try and avoid sparking more wildfires
2020 – Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after similar attack and President Macron’s defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
