Sunday, October 29, 2023

History for October 29

History for October 29 - On-This-Day.com
Bill Mauldin 1921
  • 1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.
  • 1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
  • 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
  • 1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
  • 1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
  • 1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.
  • 1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status

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