Collapse of U.S. stock market prices
Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called “Black Tuesday,” further fueling the crisis known as the Great Depression. 1929.
It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. 2015.
Hurricane Mitch made landfall, hitting northern Honduras; one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, it caused some 11,000 deaths in Central America. 1998.
Israel‘s army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area. 1956.
The Republic of Turkey was established, largely through the efforts of Kemal Atatürk, who is considered the country’s founder and served as its first president. 1923.
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley. 1901.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born October 29, 1938, Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian politician and economist who was president of Liberia (2006–18). She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country. Sirleaf was one of three recipients, along with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karmān, of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to further women’s rights.
