October 29
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
1682 - The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.
1901 - President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, South Carolina.
1923 - The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.
1940 - The United States began its first peacetime military draft.
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, the widow of President Grover Cleveland, died at age 83.
1956 - Israeli invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
1964 - The Star of India and other gems were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 - The Internet had its beginnings when the first host-to-host computer connection was made on the Arpanet -- an experimental military computer network -- between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
1987 - Following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use.
1994 - Gunman Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House. (Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.)
1998 - John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
2004 - European leaders signed the European Union's first constitution.
2004 - Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.
2008 - A 6.5-magnitdue earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's poorest regions, resulting in more than 200 deaths and leaving 15,000 homeless.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the United States, causing more than $50 billion in damages.
2015 - Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) was elected the 54th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2016 - Hillary Clinton lashed out at the FBI’s handling of a new email review, leading a chorus of Democratic leaders who declared the bureau’s actions just days before the election were “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.”
2018 - A new-generation Boeing jet operated by the Indonesian budget airline Lion Air crashed in the Java Sea minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board; it was the first of two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max, causing the plane to be grounded around the world for nearly two years as Boeing worked on software changes to a flight-control system.
2020 - The Commerce Department estimated that the U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter — by far the largest quarterly gain on record — rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work.
Birthdays
20 - Ellie Thumann (model)
28 - India Eisley (actress)
29 - Jacqueline Jossa (actress)
34 - Tove Lo (singer)
34 - Fleur East (singer)
36 - Janet Montgomery (actress)
41 - Ben Foster (actor)
44 - Brendan Fehr (actor)
44 - Jon Abrahams (actor)
48 - Trevor Lissauer (actor)
49 - Gabrielle Union (actress)
49 - Tracee Ellis Ross (actress)
50 - Winona Ryder (actress)
53 - Grayson McCouch (actor)
54 - Rufus Sewell (actor)
54 - Joely Fisher (actress)
60 - Randy Jackson (singer)
62 - Finola Hughes (actress)
64 - Dan Castellaneta (actor)
73 - Kate Jackson (actress)
74 - Richard Dreyfuss (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 29
1892 - Denver Athletic Club defeats Nebraska 18-4.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Tarkio 5-0.
1904 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 16-12.
1910 - Nebraska defeats Doane 6-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 44-0.
1927 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 21-0.
1932 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 6-0.
1938 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 13-10.
1949 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 21-20.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 19-14.
1960 - #5 Missouri defeats Nebraska 28-0.
1960 - A chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.
1960 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) makes his professional boxing debut, defeating Tunney Hunsaker in six rounds on points.
1966 - #8 Nebraska defeats Missouri 35-0.
1973 - O.J. Simpson, of the Buffalo Bills, set two NFL records. He carried the ball 39 times and he ran 157 yards putting him over 1,000 yards at the seventh game of the season.
1977 - #12 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 31-14.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 51-25.
1988 - #5 Nebraska defeats Missouri 26-18.
1994 - #3 Nebraska defeats #2 Colorado 24-7.
1995 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers became the NFL's career leader in receiving yards with 14,040 yards.
2005 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 31-24.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games to win the World Series for just the second time in the franchise's 126-year history.
2011 - #13 Nebraska defeats #9 Michigan State 24-3.
2011 - Penn State football coach Joe Paterno recorded his 409th career victory, surpassing Eddie Robinson for most Division I football wins in a career.
2014 - The San Francisco Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals in seven games to win their third World Series in five years.
2016 - #11 Wisconsin defeats #7 Nebraska 23-17 in overtime.
2018 - Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors breaks the NBA record previously held by teammate Stephen Curry for most 3-pointers in a game with 14 in the Warriors' 149-124 win over the Chicago Bulls.
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
1682 - The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, landed at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.
1901 - President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.
1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, South Carolina.
1923 - The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.
1940 - The United States began its first peacetime military draft.
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, the widow of President Grover Cleveland, died at age 83.
1956 - Israeli invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
1964 - The Star of India and other gems were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 - The Internet had its beginnings when the first host-to-host computer connection was made on the Arpanet -- an experimental military computer network -- between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
1987 - Following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use.
1994 - Gunman Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White House. (Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.)
1998 - John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77 aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
2004 - European leaders signed the European Union's first constitution.
2004 - Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.
2008 - A 6.5-magnitdue earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's poorest regions, resulting in more than 200 deaths and leaving 15,000 homeless.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the United States, causing more than $50 billion in damages.
2015 - Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) was elected the 54th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2016 - Hillary Clinton lashed out at the FBI’s handling of a new email review, leading a chorus of Democratic leaders who declared the bureau’s actions just days before the election were “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.”
2018 - A new-generation Boeing jet operated by the Indonesian budget airline Lion Air crashed in the Java Sea minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board; it was the first of two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max, causing the plane to be grounded around the world for nearly two years as Boeing worked on software changes to a flight-control system.
2020 - The Commerce Department estimated that the U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter — by far the largest quarterly gain on record — rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work.
Birthdays
20 - Ellie Thumann (model)
28 - India Eisley (actress)
29 - Jacqueline Jossa (actress)
34 - Tove Lo (singer)
34 - Fleur East (singer)
36 - Janet Montgomery (actress)
41 - Ben Foster (actor)
44 - Brendan Fehr (actor)
44 - Jon Abrahams (actor)
48 - Trevor Lissauer (actor)
49 - Gabrielle Union (actress)
49 - Tracee Ellis Ross (actress)
50 - Winona Ryder (actress)
53 - Grayson McCouch (actor)
54 - Rufus Sewell (actor)
54 - Joely Fisher (actress)
60 - Randy Jackson (singer)
62 - Finola Hughes (actress)
64 - Dan Castellaneta (actor)
73 - Kate Jackson (actress)
74 - Richard Dreyfuss (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 29
1892 - Denver Athletic Club defeats Nebraska 18-4.
1900 - Nebraska defeats Tarkio 5-0.
1904 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 16-12.
1910 - Nebraska defeats Doane 6-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 44-0.
1927 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 21-0.
1932 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 6-0.
1938 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 13-10.
1949 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 21-20.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 19-14.
1960 - #5 Missouri defeats Nebraska 28-0.
1960 - A chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.
1960 - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) makes his professional boxing debut, defeating Tunney Hunsaker in six rounds on points.
1966 - #8 Nebraska defeats Missouri 35-0.
1973 - O.J. Simpson, of the Buffalo Bills, set two NFL records. He carried the ball 39 times and he ran 157 yards putting him over 1,000 yards at the seventh game of the season.
1977 - #12 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 31-14.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 51-25.
1988 - #5 Nebraska defeats Missouri 26-18.
1994 - #3 Nebraska defeats #2 Colorado 24-7.
1995 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers became the NFL's career leader in receiving yards with 14,040 yards.
2005 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 31-24.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games to win the World Series for just the second time in the franchise's 126-year history.
2011 - #13 Nebraska defeats #9 Michigan State 24-3.
2011 - Penn State football coach Joe Paterno recorded his 409th career victory, surpassing Eddie Robinson for most Division I football wins in a career.
2014 - The San Francisco Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals in seven games to win their third World Series in five years.
2016 - #11 Wisconsin defeats #7 Nebraska 23-17 in overtime.
2018 - Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors breaks the NBA record previously held by teammate Stephen Curry for most 3-pointers in a game with 14 in the Warriors' 149-124 win over the Chicago Bulls.
