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Today in History: October 29
1618
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh's enemies spread rumors that he was opposed the accession of King James.
1901
Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY.
1929
Black Tuesday--the most catastrophic day in stock market history, the herald of the Great Depression. 16 million shares were sold at declining prices. By mid-November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September will have been wiped out.
1969
First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet.
1972
Palestinian guerrillas kill an airport employee and hijack a plane, carrying 27 passengers, to Cuba. They force West Germany to release 3 terrorists who were involved in the Munich Massacre.
1998
The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record up to that time, Hurricane Mitch, makes landfall in Honduras (in 2005 Hurricane Wilma surpassed it); nearly 11,000 people died and approximately the same number were missing.
2012
Hurricane Sandy devastates much of the East Coast of the US; nearly 300 die directly or indirectly from the storm.
2020
India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527
Today in History: Born on October 29
1947
Richard Dreyfuss, actor (American Graffiti, Jaws; won Academy Award for Best Actor for 1977's The Goodbye Girl).
1948
Kate Jackson, actress, director, producer (original Charlie's Angels TV series, Scarecrow and Mrs. King TV series).
1971
Winona Ryder, actress, producer (Beetlejuice; Girl, Interrupted).
JOTD
What do you feed a woman to stop her from giving blowjobs?
Wedding cake
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Posted on 10/29/23 at 5:06 am to Armymann50
Good morning
Posted on 10/29/23 at 9:27 am to Armymann50
Morning all
JoTD.
JoTD.
Posted on 10/29/23 at 11:29 am to Armymann50
Morning 
Posted on 10/29/23 at 12:14 pm to Armymann50
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1901
Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for the assassination of US President William McKinley. Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot McKinley on September 6 during a public reception at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y. Despite early hopes of recovery, McKinley died September 14, in Buffalo, NY.
McKinley died a very slow, and very public death. Modern germ theory hadn't been accepted at this point so physicians on the scene simply stuck their fingers into the wound to dig the bullet out.
He developed sepsis and, over the course of several weeks, slowly withered away. All with the press camped outside his door reporting on his daily decline.
The Republican leadership, including McKinley, so distrusted Teddy Roosevelt that no one told him how bad McKinley's condition had become. So when McKinley died Teddy had just finished climbing the tallest mountain in New York and had to make a perilous trip down the mountain, at breakneck speeds, to be sworn in as President by a local justice of the peace.
It would be the start of the schism that eventually formed the modern Republican party. Teddy was a devote reformer and his bitter departure from the party put things in motion for the Republican party of today. Oddly enough, it also set in motion the modern Democratic party because FDR, Teddy's distant cousin, decided he couldn't run as a Republican because he would always be in Teddy's rather immense shadow.
Teddy Roosevelt's ascension to power is arguable the most important political event in US history since Lincoln was elected. All because Leon Czolgosz had a crush on Emma Goldman, the leading female anarchist of the day. He basically assassinated the President and set all this into motion in the hopes of impressing her.
Posted on 10/29/23 at 1:16 pm to Armymann50
Posted on 10/30/23 at 8:44 am to Arksulli
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physicians on the scene simply stuck their fingers into the wound to dig the bullet out
Posted on 10/30/23 at 10:45 am to Armymann50
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1971
Winona Ryder, actress, producer (Beetlejuice; Girl, Interrupted).
I would bang Winona Ryder
I hope piggilicious is reading this and is jealous
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