October 29, 2023
QUOTE
The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.
--Peter Green
BIRTHDAYS
1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist
1942 – Bob Ross, American painter and television host
1946 – Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1948 – Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
IN MEMORY
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc.
1957 – Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer
1971 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1787 – Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1929 – Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1964 – Biggest jewel heist; involving the Star of India (gem) in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City by Murph the Surf and gang.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
2015 – China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.