Today is Tuesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2002. There are 63 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2002. There are 63 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, "Black Tuesday" descends upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapse amid panic selling and thousands of investors are wiped out as America's Great Depression begins.
In 1682, the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, lands at what is now Chester, Pa. In 1901, President McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted. In 1911, American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer dies in Charleston, S.C. In 1923, the Republic of Turkey is proclaimed. In 1947, former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston dies in Baltimore at age 83. In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel launches an invasion of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. In 1956, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premieres as NBC's nightly television newscast, replacing "The Camel News Caravan." In 1966, the National Organization for Women is founded. In 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange. In 1998, at age 77, Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier.
October 29, 1977: President Carter appoints J. Phillip Richley, Democratic nominee for mayor of Youngstown and a former state director of the transportation, to the 12-member National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.
Three men armed with a shotgun and two pistols take cash from the Foster Theater at 2504 Glenwood Ave. Two patrons were also robbed, but after the gunmen fled, the theatergoers left before police arrived.
Youngstown State University receives a state grant of $9 million toward construction of a sports complex and stadium on campus.
October 29, 1962: After a 58-day strike, 1,660 production employees of General Fireproofing Co. return to their jobs under a new contract hailed by labor and management as a "landmark." It provides a raise of 25 cents an hour over two years in 5-cent increments.
As the Cuban missile crisis comes to an end, Fidel Castro announces that any U.S. guarantee of nonaggression against Cuba is worthless unless the United States gives up its occupation of the Guantanamo naval base.
Dr. Chauncey G. Bly, president of Thiel College, opens the annual Reformation of Faith Festival at Stambaugh Auditorium speaking on the theme of man's inhumanity toward man. About 2,600 persons attend.
October 29, 1952: Nancy Antonoff, 17, a senior at Chaney High School, reigns as queen of the annual Halloween parade sponsored by the West Side Merchants and Civics Association.
Dr. Armin Elsaessar, Youngstown's famed goiter specialist, dies of a heart attack after enjoying his regular weekend horseback ride. He was 77.
Mayor Charles Henderson declares a deadlock in the bus strike and says he will call on a special labor-management-citizens committee to make public recommendations for settling the strike.
October 29, 1927: Youngstown area residents are able to listen to two football games by radio. South vs. Chaney is broadcast on WKBN, Youngstown, and Dartmouth vs. Yale is on KDKA out of Pittsburgh.
The Warren Market Growers Association is incorporated to construct and operate a market house for the wholesale and retail sale of farm produce and flowers.
An unknown assailant fires a shot at the Rev. D.P. Shafer, pastor of the Church of Christ of Sebring, as he drives home from a Sunday School convention in Homeworth. The shot was so close that Rev. Shafer's arm was numb from the concussion.