Wall Street Stock Market Crash (16 million shares dumped), 1929
Turkey founded, 1923
All-metal windmill patented (J.S. Risdon, Genoa, Illinois), 1872
Duane Allman killed, 1971
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate cavalry commander, died, 1877
Draft numbers picked, 1940
Sir Walter Raleigh executed for treason against King James I, 1618
Huntley and Brinkley Report began, 1956
Leon Czolgosz, assassin of US president McKinley, electrocuted, 1901
“Vaulting-horse tunnel” escape, 1943
Cassius Clay made his professional debut (beat Tunney Hunsaker), 1960
Joseph Pulitzer, American journalist, died, 1911
“Runnin’ Wild” (introduced the Charleston) opened on Broadway, 1923
Ball point pens first sold in US (Gimbels), 1945
Sixteen California State Polytech College football players killed in plane crash, 1960
Galt MacDermot’s “Hair” opened on Broadway, 1967
Dry Ice used to seed clouds and produce rain (General Electric in Concord, New Hampshire), 1947
Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of Grover Cleveland, died, 1947