Thursday, October 29, 2015

History for October 29

History for October 29 - On-This-Day.com
Bill Mauldin 1921, Jon Vickers 1926, Melba Moore 1945 


Richard Dreyfuss 1947, Kate Jackson 1948, Winona Ryder 1971 


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


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 began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market. 


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 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis. 


1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded. 


1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status 

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