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1929 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. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf president of Liberia bornOctober 29, 1938 (age 87)Monrovia, LiberiaBruno Vincent/Getty Images 1950 Abdullah Gül president of Turkey 1947 Richard Dreyfuss American actor 1938 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf president of Liberia 1897 Joseph Goebbels German propagandist 1891 Fanny Brice American actress See All Biographies On This Day

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2015 It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about ChinaEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1998 Hurricane Mitch made landfall, hitting northern Honduras; one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, it caused some 11,000 deaths in Central America. Test your knowledge of disasters of historic proportionsU.S. Geological Survey 1995 Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider, died at age 71. Take our movie quiz 1956 Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area. Test your knowledge of Egyptian historyEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1950 King Gustav V of Sweden, a strong proponent of Swedish neutrality during World War II, died in Stockholm. Take our quiz about kings and emperorsUPI—Bettmann/Corbis 1933 American artist George Luks—one of a group of American painters popularly known as the Ashcan school because of their realistic treatment of urban scenes—died at age 66. Take our ultimate art quizPhotograph by kaldari. Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn., gift of Miss Inez Hyder, accession number 1956.1 1923 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. Test your knowledge of Turkish and Ottoman historyVictor Console/ANL/REX/Shutterstock.com 1901 Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley. Read more about Leon Czolgosz in our list of nine infamous assassins and the world leaders they dispatchedFrom The Manner of a Man that Kills by L. Vernon Briggs, 1921 1897 Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, was born. Take our quiz about infamous NazisInterfoto/Friedrich Rauch, Munich 1709 The community of Cistercian nuns at Port-Royal, an abbey in France, was dispersed and exiled to other convents because of their involvement with Jansenism. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about world religionsBetrand Gardel—Hemis/Alamy 1618 British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about famous EnglishmenCourtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd. SIGN UP FOR History's Biggest Headlines Discover the fascinating events that shaped the world, straight from our editors. SIGN UP Thanks for signing up for Today in History. Your first newsletter will arrive soon! SIGN UP By clicking "Sign Up" you are agreeing to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.