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.
1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.
1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
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.
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.
1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.
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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