Monday, October 29, 2007

Today In History

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 29, 1929, stock prices collapsed on the New York Stock Exchange amid panic selling. Thousands of investors were wiped out.

2007- Glenn Greenwald got caught fabricating slanted stories...again.

1923The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.

1940Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number - 158 - in America's first peacetime military draft.
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1956 Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.

1998John Glenn, the first American to orbit the moon, returned to space 36 years later, at age 77.

2002A memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in Minneapolis turned into a virtual political rally as friends and relatives urged Minnesotans to honor his memory by putting a Democrat in his seat.

2004Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first time that he had ordered the Sept. 11 attacks.




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