On This Day [ October 29 ]
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
-Quote Of The Day...
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" Faith will not die while seed catalogs are printed. "
On This Day
In History...
In 539 -
-BC- Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia
In 1682-
William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania
In 1727-
Severe earthquake in New England
In 1787-
The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
In 1811-
1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
In 1833-
1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
In 1863-
Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
In 1867-
Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
In 1889-
NY Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
In 1889-
Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
In 1894-
1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
In 1904-
1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
In 1910-
Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
In 1920-
Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
In 1923-
"Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway
In 1923-
Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)
In 1924-
"Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
In 1929-
"Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
In 1930-
1st football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights
In 1932-
French liner Normandie is launched
In 1939-
Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
In 1940-
Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
In 1942-
16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
In 1942-
Alaska highway completed
In 1942-
Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
In 1945-
1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
In 1950-
Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
In 1956-
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
In 1956-
IDF crosses Egyptian territory in the Sinai
In 1956-
International zone of Tangier returned to Morocco
In 1956-
Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
In 1957-
A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
In 1959-
10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
In 1960-
Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
In 1960-
Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
In 1963-
"Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
In 1964-
Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
In 1964-
Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee
In 1966-
National Organization of Women founded
In 1972-
Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
In 1975-
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills first
In 1979-
Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
In 1982-
Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
In 1982-
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"
In 1984-
Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
In 1987-
Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
In 1988-
2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
In 1988-
China announces a herbal male contraceptive
In 1988-
Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
In 1988-
Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
In 1989-
NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
In 1990-
30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
October 29
-Birthdays
In 1740-
James Boswell Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
In 1859-
Charles Ebbets (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
In 1873-
Guillermo Valencia Colombia, poet/translator/statesman
In 1875-
Marie queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
In 1882-
Jean Giraudoux Bellac France, playwright (glantine, Provinciales)
In 1884-
Bela Lugosi horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
In 1891-
Fanny Brice singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
In 1897-
Hope Emerson Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
In 1897-
Paul Joseph Goebbels Nazi propagandist
In 19XX-
Laura Bonarrigo actress (Cassie Callson-One Life to Live)
In 19XX-
Scott Jacek actor (Santa Barbara)
In 1906-
Fredric Brown American writer (US Army in Transition)
In 1910-
Alfred J Ayer England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
In 1917-
Henry Carlsson Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
In 1921-
Ed Kemmer Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
In 1921-
William Henry Mauldin US, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59)
In 1922-
Neal Hefti Hastings Neb, orch leader (Kate Smith Show)
In 1925-
Geraldine Brooks NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
In 1926-
Jon(athan Stewart) Vickers Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
In 1934-
Robert E Hughes NYC, orch leader (Rich Little Show)
In 1937-
Michael Ponti Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
In 1945-
Melba Moore NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island)
In 1947-
Richard Dreyfuss Brooklyn NY, actor (Jaws, Nuts)
In 1948-
Kate Jackson Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
In 1953-
Denis Potvin Ottawa Ontario, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)
In 1959-
Jesse Barfield Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
In 1960-
Finola Hughes actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
In 1961-
Randy Jackson rocker (Jacksons-ABC)
In 1965-
Steven Sweet Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
In 1971-
Winona Ryder [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)
October 29
-Deaths Which Occurred
In 1618-
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London
In 1885-
George B McClellan Union army general, dies at 58
In 1901-
Leon Czolcosz assassin of President McKinley, is executed
In 1911-
Joseph Pulitzer American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
In 1947-
Frances Cleveland Preston former 1st lady, dies in Balt at 83
In 1957-
Louis B Mayer MGM producer, dies at 71
In 1963-
Adolphe Menjou actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73
In 1971-
Duane Allman dies at 24 in a motorcycle accident
In 1975-
John Scott Trotter orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67
In 1981-
William O Walker publisher of the Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
In 1987-
Kamal El Mallakh dies at 57
In 1987-
Woody Herman bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
In 1990-
William French Smith attorney general (1980), dies at 73 from cancer
October 29
-Holidays
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Cyprus : National Day
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New Zealand : Labour Day-last Monday in October - - - - - ( Monday )
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Turkey : Republic Day (1923)
October 29
-Religious History
In 1869-
Birth of E. O. Sellers, American Baptist musician. At various times the song evangelist for R.A. Torrey, Gipsy Smith, A.C. Dixon and J. Wilbur Chapman, Sellers is remembered today for his two original hymns: "Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus."
In 1870-
Birth of Juji Nakada, Japanese Christian evangelist. In 1901 he influenced Charles and Lettie Cowman (authors of "Streams in the Desert") to come to Japan, where in 1910 they incorporated the Oriental Missions Society.
In 1889-
New York City missions pioneer Albert B. Simpson, 46, incorporated the International Missionary Alliance. Combined in 1897 with a group formerly also organized by Simpson, it became the Christian and Missionary Alliance, one of the most missions-minded denominations in modern American Protestantism.
In 1919-
The Apostolic Christian Association was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. It later merged with what is now the International Pentecostal Church of Christ, headquartered in London, Ohio.
In 1955-
American missionary Jim Elliot, 28, wrote in his journal: 'First time I ever saw an Auca--1500' is a long ways if you're looking out of an airplane.' Ten weeks later, on Jan 8, 1956, Jim and four other missionaries would be speared to death by these same Indians they had come to Ecuador in hopes of evangelizing.