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 Today's highlight in history:
On Oct. 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America's Great Depression began.
On this date:
In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
In 1901, President McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
In 1940, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number -- 158
-- in America's first peacetime military draft.
In 1947, former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston died in Baltimore at age 83.
In 1957, former MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer died in Los Angeles at age 75.
In 1966, the National Organization for Women was formally organized during a conference in Washington, D.C.
In 1967, Expo 67 in Montreal closed after six months.
In 1987, following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg's previous marijuana use.
In 1987, jazz great Woody Herman died in Los Angeles at age 74.
Ten years ago: Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with President Clinton at the White House; the two leaders clashed over China's human rights record, but agreed to end the diplomatic chill between their countries. The Baghdad government barred Americans from the U.N. disarmament effort in Iraq
-- a move that outraged chief weapons inspector Richard Butler and prompted him to suspend inspections.
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 Five years ago: A Minneapolis memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone turned into a virtual political rally as friends and relatives urged Minnesotans to honor his memory by putting a Democrat in his seat.
One year ago: The board of trustees of Gallaudet University, the nation's premier school for the deaf, voted to revoke the appointment of incoming president Jane Fernandes, who had been the subject of protests. A Nigerian Boeing 737 jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Abuja airport, killing 96 of the 105 people on board. Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won re-election in a landslide.
Today's birthdays: Bluegrass singer-musician Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers) is 70. Country singer Lee Clayton is 65. Rock musician Denny Laine is 63. Singer Melba Moore is 62. Musician Peter Green is 61. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 60. Actress Kate Jackson is 59. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is 56. Actor Dan Castellaneta ("The Simpsons") is 50. Country musician Steve Kellough (Wild Horses) is 50. Comic strip artist Tom Wilson ("Ziggy") is 50. Singer Randy Jackson is 46. Rock musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 42. Actress Joely Fisher is 40. Rapper Paris is 40. Actor Rufus Sewell is 40. Rock singer SA Martinez (311) is 38. Musician Toby Smith is 37. Actress Winona Ryder is 36. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 35. Actor Trevor Lissauer is 34. Actress Gabrielle Union is 34. Actress Milena Govich is 31. Actor Brendan Fehr is 30.
Thought for today: "Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?"
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist (1815-1902).
[The Associated Press]
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