Page 4: Historical Events In October - 29

1909  Douglass Montgomery, LA CA, actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane) on this day in history.   

1910  On October - 29 bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game   

1910  On October - 29 alfred J Ayer, England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician   

1911  On October - 29 phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader   

1911  On October - 29 joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC   

1912  On this day in history the size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order.   

1913  Floods in El Salvador kill thousands on October - 29.   

1914  On October - 29 russia declares war on Turkey   

1915  Aristide Briand becomes premier of France on October - 29.   

1915  Dennis Brookes, cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7) on this day in history.   

1917  On this day in history eddie Constantine, US/French actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again)   

1919  On this day in history soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60   

1920  Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees on this day in history.   

1920  On October - 29 baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate   

1920  Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1921  On October - 29 the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.   

1921  On this day in history bill Mauldin, cartoonist (WW II Army grunts)   

1922  On this day in history francois H L Henrichs, sportscaster/actor (Spider)   

1922  George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1923  On October - 29 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway   

1923  The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed on October - 29.   

1923  On October - 29 turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)   

1923  On October - 29 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway   

1923  Dietrich Manicke, composer on October - 29.   

1924  On October - 29 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater   

1924  The ends of the Holland Tunnel meet under the Hudson River in New York City on October - 29.   

1924  On this day in history zbigniew Herbert, writer   

1925  On this day in history betty Evans Grayson, Portland Or, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959)   

1926  On October - 29 jon[athan Stewart] Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor   

1927  On this day in history frank A Sedgman, tennis champ (US Open-1951)   

1927  On this day in history leonard Nelson, Ger philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45   

1929  "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression" on this day in history.   

1929  On October - 29 black Tuesday' New York's Wall Street crash   

1929  On October - 29 black Tuesday, where fearful investors crashed the New York Stock Exchange through their panicked selling of stocks, starts the Great Depression in America.   

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1463  On this day in history birth of alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher   

1507  Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish viceroy of Neth (1566-73) was born on October - 29.   

1513  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne was born on this day in history.   

1562  On October - 29 birth of george Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury   

1656  On this day in history birth of edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [NS=Nov 8]   

1682  Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) was born on October - 29.   

1690  On October - 29 birth of martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)   

1704  John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.   

0490  On this day in history petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies   

1038  On this day in history death of aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury   

1138  Death of BolesÅ‚aw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086) on this day in history.   

1268  Death of Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252) on this day in history.   

1321  On this day in history stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies   

1590  Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68 on this day in history.   

1618  On this day in history death of walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason   

1650  On this day in history death of david Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)