Today In History - October 29

539BC Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London
1682 William Penn lands
1727 Severe earthquake is recorded in New England
1787 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced
1811 The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh headed for New Orleans
1833 The first US college fraternity to have a fraternity house is founded
1863 International Red Cross is founded
1889 Stanley Park is dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1894 The first election of the Hawaiian Republic
1904 The first intercity trucking service: Colorado City and Snyder, Texas
1911 Joseph Pulitzer dies in Charleston, SC
1920 Edward Barrow is named Yankee general manager
1923 Turkey is proclaimed a republic
1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes and triggers "Great Depression"
1930 The first football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights
1932 The French liner Normandie is launched
1939 The Golden Gate International Exposition closes
1940 Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, drew the first number (158) in the first peacetime military draft in US history
1942 16,000 Jews are killed in Pinsk Russia
1942 The Alaska highway completed
1942 Branch Rickey is named president/GM of the Brooklyn Dodgers
1945 The first ball point pen goes on sale, over half a century after it was patented
1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley begin their broadcasting relationship
1956 The IDF crosses Egyptian territory in the Sinai
1956 The international zone of Tangier is returned to Morocco
1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai
1957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1960 A Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes and kills 16 people
1960 Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) first professional fight: defeats Tunney Hunsaker in 6 rounds
1964 The Star of India and other jewels are stolen in NY
1964 Town of Karmiel is founded in the Galilee
1966 The National Organization of Women is founded
1975 The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffer, kills his first victim
1979 Billy Martin is fired as the Yankee manager
1982 Car maker John DeLorean is indicted for drug trafficking
1982 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"
1987 Woody Herman dies at age 74
1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters are arrested for blocking clinics
1988 China announces an herbal male contraceptive
1989 The NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
1990 30 people die in a 5.7 earthquake in Algeria

1463 Alessandro Achillini
1507 Fernando Alvarez de Toledo
1513 Jacques Amyot
1562 George Abbott
1656 Edmond Halley (Halley's Comet)
1822 Joost G. Kist
1824 Joseph Horace Lewis
1837 Abraham Kuyper
1837 Harriet Powers
1844 Albert von Rothschild
1857 Conrad Haebler
1882 Jean Giraudoux
1883 Dirk Verbeek
1884 Bela Lugosi (Dracula!)
1890 Claire Goll
1891 Fanny Brice
1897 Hope Emerson
1897 Paul Joseph Goebbels: Nazi war criminal
1898 Emmanuel Bondeville
1899 Akim Tamiroff
1908 Stewart Myles MacPherson
1909 Douglass Montgomery
1910 Alfred J. Ayer
1911 Phillip Jack Oppenheimer
1915 Dennis Brookes
1917 Eddie Constantine
1917 Henry Carlsson
1921 Bill Mauldin
1921 Ed Kemmer
1923 Dietrich Manicke
1924 Zbigniew Herbert
1925 Geraldine Brooks
1925 Zoot Sims
1927 Frank A. Sedgman
1927 Hugo Schiltz
1930 Peter Stampfel
1934 Karl Francis Hettinger
1934 Pim Jacobs
1934 Ramon Sender
1934 Robert E. Hughes
1935 David Allen
1937 Michael Ponti
1940 Connie Mack
1940 Galen Weston
1941 Brian Yuile
1942 Johan Fleming Ramsland
1943 Donald Simpson
1944 Robbie van Leeuwen
1946 Anura Tennekoon
1947 Richard Dreyfuss
1948 Kate Jackson
1948 Ricky Reynolds
1949 Paul Orndorff
1951 Dirk Kempthorne
1951 Guy Gelso
1951 Rick Bordia
1952 Arnell Carmichael
1952 Beth Solomon
1952 Valeri I Tokarev
1953 Denis Potvin
1954 Anita Meijer
1954 Herman Ronald Frazier
1955 Kevin DuBrow
1959 Finola Hughes
1959 Jesse Barfield
1959 Mike Gartner
1959 Tamar Baruch
1960 Michael Carter
1961 Cornelia Oschkenat
1961 Joel Otto
1961 Randy Jackson
1964 Greg Montgomery
1964 Jackie Pereira
1964 May Allison
1965 Andy Beal
1965 Greg Davis
1965 Steven Sweet
1967 Greg Gohr, Santa Clara California, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
1967 Joely Fisher
1968 Grayson McCouch
1968 Johann Olav Koss
1969 Peter Breen
1970 Charles Swann
1970 Chris Thorpe
1970 Dan Ratushny
1970 Edwin van der Sar
1970 Marquez Pope
1970 Phillip Cocu
1971 Greg Blewett
1971 Matthew Hayden
1971 Winona Ryder
1972 Rhonda Blades
1973 Adam Bacher
1974 Mike Crawford
1974 R. A. Dickey
1974 Renata Hornofova
1976 Claudia Dopf
1981 Amanda Beard