Wednesday, October 29, 2014

History for October 29

History for October 29 - On-This-Day.com
Fanny Brice 1891, Bill Mauldin 1921, Melba Moore 1945 


Richard Dreyfuss 1947, Kate Jackson 1948, Winona Ryder 1971 




1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I. 


1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded. 


1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted. 


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. 


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 



1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

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