October 29th

October 29 is the 303rd day of the year.  There are 63 days remaining until the end of the year.

1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes. I’ve always wondered why they call it "Black Tuesday" when everything went into the red?

1953 A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns

1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up in a powerfully bold display of daddy/son love

1958 Boris Pasternak <le sigh> refuses Nobel prize for literature upon close counsel of the Soviet government

1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay <le sigh> wins his first professional fight

1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive which has proven so effective that only 1 guy has ever become pregnant

1998 Grandpas in Space:  John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery in another failed bid to become President of the United States

2004 The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 US presidential election.

2004 In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.

1897 Hope Emerson, maybe gay US actress/Westward the Women 

1967 Rufus Sewell, English actor 

1968 Grayson McCouch, maybe gay US actor 

1973 Trevor Lissauer, maybe gay US actor 

1977 Jon Abrahams, maybe gay US actor 

1977 Julio Camejo [Sánchez González], Mexican actor/dancer 

1977 Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor 

1980 Ben Foster, US actor 

1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his "companion" Frederick I, Margrave of Baden, by Charles I of Sicily, a spurned lover and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.

1618 Walter Raleigh, maybe gay English scholar, poet and historian, loses his pretty head for a moment

1901 Cutie-pie Leon Czolgosz, gay US anarchist/assassin of US President William McKinley, lights up the night

1971 [Howard] Duane Allman, rock guitarist, lay-la in gay GA (Georgia)

1996 James Leo Herlihy, gay US (Midnight Cowboy), goes all Ratso