October 29
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
1682 - William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, landed at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was electrocuted.
1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, South Carolina.
1923 - The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
1929 - "Black Tuesday" descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as the Great Depression began.
1940 - The United States began its first peacetime military draft.
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, the widow of former President Grover Cleveland, died at age 83.
1956 - Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.
1962 - The Beach Boys' debut album, "Surfin' Safari" was released.
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 communication was made on the ARPANET -- an experimental military computer network -- between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
1987 - Following the 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.
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 and told Americans just days before the election that the "best way to avoid another Manhattan" was to stop threatening Muslims' security.
2008 - A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's poorest regions, killing at least 200 and leaving more than 15,000 homeless.
2010 - Authorities on three continents said they had thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets from Yemen.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the United States, killing 117 people in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean. The storm caused more than $50 billion in damage in the United States.
2015 - Paul Ryan was elected the 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
2015 - China said it would allow all married couples to have two children, signaling the end after 35 years to its drastic and unpopular “one-child” policy.
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 as Boeing worked on software changes to a flight-control system.
2019 - Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer serving with President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, defied White House orders and testified to impeachment investigators that he had twice raised concerns over the administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden. (Following the Senate’s acquittal vote, Vindman was reassigned from the NSC; his twin brother, an NSC lawyer, was pushed out with him.)
Birthdays
24 - Astrid Smeplass (singer)
27 - India Eisley (actress)
28 - Jacqueline Jossa (actress)
30 - Carlson Young (actress)
33 - Tove Lo (singer)
33 - Andy Dalton (football player)
33 - Fleur East (singer)
35 - Janet Montgomery (actress)
40 - Ben Foster (actor)
43 - Brendan Fehr (actor)
43 - Jon Abrahams (actor)
44 - Milena Govich (actress)
47 - Trevor Lissauer (actor)
48 - Gabrielle Union (actress)
48 - Tracee Ellis Ross (actress)
49 - Winona Ryder (actress)
52 - Grayson McCouch (actor)
53 - Rufus Sewell (actor)
53 - Joely Fisher (actress)
59 - Randy Jackson (TV host/singer)
61 - Finola Hughes (actress)
63 - Dan Castellaneta (actor)
72 - Kate Jackson (actress)
73 - Richard Dreyfuss (actor)
78 - Lee Clayton (country singer)
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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.
1942 - Branch Rickey is named president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1949 - #16 Missouri defeats Nebraska 21-20.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 19-14.
1960 - #5 Missouri defeats Nebraska 28-0.
1960 - Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defeats Tunney Hunaker on points in his first professional fight.
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.
1966 - #8 Nebraska defeats Missouri 35-0.
1973 - O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills set two NFL records, carrying the ball 39 times in a contest (for 157 yards), which put him over 1,000 yards rushing in just the seventh game of the season.
1977 - #12 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 31-14.
1979 - Willie Mays severed all ties with major league baseball when he accepted a public relations job with an Atlantic City casino.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 51-25.
1987 - Tom Hearns wins an unprecedented boxing title in a fourth different weight class.
1988 - #5 Nebraska defeats Missouri 26-18.
1989 - Ozzie Newsome ended his NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions.
1994 - #3 Nebraska defeats #2 Colorado 24-7.
1995 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers became the NFL's all-time leader in receiving yards with 14,040.
2005 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 31-24.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games to win their second World Series in the franchise's 126-year history.
2011 - #13 Nebraska defeats #9 Michigan State 24-3.
2014 - The San Francisco Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals in seven games to win their third World Series title in five years.
2015 - American Simone Biles won her third straight world gymnastics title at the competition in Glasgow, Scotland.
2016 - #11 Wisconsin defeats #7 Nebraska 23-17 in overtime.
2017 - All but 10 members of the Houston Texans took a knee during the national anthem, reacting to a remark from team owner Bob McNair to other NFL owners that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison.”
2018 - Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson breaks the NBA record held previously by teammate Stephen Curry for most 3-pointers in a game with 14 in the Warriors' 149-124 win over the Chicago Bulls.
2019 - The NCAA took a major step toward letting college athletes cash in on their fame, voting to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.”
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
1682 - William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, landed at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was electrocuted.
1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, South Carolina.
1923 - The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
1929 - "Black Tuesday" descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as the Great Depression began.
1940 - The United States began its first peacetime military draft.
1947 - Frances Cleveland Preston, the widow of former President Grover Cleveland, died at age 83.
1956 - Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.
1962 - The Beach Boys' debut album, "Surfin' Safari" was released.
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 communication was made on the ARPANET -- an experimental military computer network -- between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
1987 - Following the 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.
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 and told Americans just days before the election that the "best way to avoid another Manhattan" was to stop threatening Muslims' security.
2008 - A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's poorest regions, killing at least 200 and leaving more than 15,000 homeless.
2010 - Authorities on three continents said they had thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets from Yemen.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the United States, killing 117 people in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean. The storm caused more than $50 billion in damage in the United States.
2015 - Paul Ryan was elected the 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives.
2015 - China said it would allow all married couples to have two children, signaling the end after 35 years to its drastic and unpopular “one-child” policy.
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 as Boeing worked on software changes to a flight-control system.
2019 - Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer serving with President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, defied White House orders and testified to impeachment investigators that he had twice raised concerns over the administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden. (Following the Senate’s acquittal vote, Vindman was reassigned from the NSC; his twin brother, an NSC lawyer, was pushed out with him.)
Birthdays
24 - Astrid Smeplass (singer)
27 - India Eisley (actress)
28 - Jacqueline Jossa (actress)
30 - Carlson Young (actress)
33 - Tove Lo (singer)
33 - Andy Dalton (football player)
33 - Fleur East (singer)
35 - Janet Montgomery (actress)
40 - Ben Foster (actor)
43 - Brendan Fehr (actor)
43 - Jon Abrahams (actor)
44 - Milena Govich (actress)
47 - Trevor Lissauer (actor)
48 - Gabrielle Union (actress)
48 - Tracee Ellis Ross (actress)
49 - Winona Ryder (actress)
52 - Grayson McCouch (actor)
53 - Rufus Sewell (actor)
53 - Joely Fisher (actress)
59 - Randy Jackson (TV host/singer)
61 - Finola Hughes (actress)
63 - Dan Castellaneta (actor)
72 - Kate Jackson (actress)
73 - Richard Dreyfuss (actor)
78 - Lee Clayton (country singer)
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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.
1942 - Branch Rickey is named president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1949 - #16 Missouri defeats Nebraska 21-20.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 19-14.
1960 - #5 Missouri defeats Nebraska 28-0.
1960 - Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defeats Tunney Hunaker on points in his first professional fight.
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.
1966 - #8 Nebraska defeats Missouri 35-0.
1973 - O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills set two NFL records, carrying the ball 39 times in a contest (for 157 yards), which put him over 1,000 yards rushing in just the seventh game of the season.
1977 - #12 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 31-14.
1979 - Willie Mays severed all ties with major league baseball when he accepted a public relations job with an Atlantic City casino.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 51-25.
1987 - Tom Hearns wins an unprecedented boxing title in a fourth different weight class.
1988 - #5 Nebraska defeats Missouri 26-18.
1989 - Ozzie Newsome ended his NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions.
1994 - #3 Nebraska defeats #2 Colorado 24-7.
1995 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers became the NFL's all-time leader in receiving yards with 14,040.
2005 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 31-24.
2008 - The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games to win their second World Series in the franchise's 126-year history.
2011 - #13 Nebraska defeats #9 Michigan State 24-3.
2014 - The San Francisco Giants defeat the Kansas City Royals in seven games to win their third World Series title in five years.
2015 - American Simone Biles won her third straight world gymnastics title at the competition in Glasgow, Scotland.
2016 - #11 Wisconsin defeats #7 Nebraska 23-17 in overtime.
2017 - All but 10 members of the Houston Texans took a knee during the national anthem, reacting to a remark from team owner Bob McNair to other NFL owners that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison.”
2018 - Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson breaks the NBA record held previously by teammate Stephen Curry for most 3-pointers in a game with 14 in the Warriors' 149-124 win over the Chicago Bulls.
2019 - The NCAA took a major step toward letting college athletes cash in on their fame, voting to permit them to “benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness.”