Today is Monday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2018. There are 63 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2018. There are 63 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, is executed in London for treason.

1787: The opera “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart debuts in Prague.

1901: President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted.

1923: The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed.

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” began.

1956: Israel invades Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

1979: On the 50th anniversary of the stock-market crash, anti-nuclear protesters try but fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

1987: Jazz great Woody Herman dies in Los Angeles at age 74.

1998: Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roars back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.

2004: Osama bin Laden, admits he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S.

2012: Superstorm Sandy slams ashore in New Jersey and slowly marches inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermath are blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Three men, including one with a long police record, are being sought by Youngstown arson investigators in connection with a string of fires that caused $4 million in damage.

Leigh-Joshua Enterprises, owners of Handel’s ice cream stores, files suit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court against four teenage girls formerly employed at the Belmont Avenue store accused of taking cash and ice cream valued at $22,288.

Youngstown State University’s business school is a candidate for possible accreditation by the prestigious American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

1978: Youngstown detectives seek to have two 16-year-old boys charged as adults in the murder of Ann G. O’Neil, 69, during a $20-robbery outside a North Side bowling alley.

Joseph Naffah, recently named Lebanese ambassador to Japan, meets with members of the Youngstown Lebanese community at the Canfield home of Joseph Sheban. Naffah’s sister, Odette, lives in Youngstown.

The 1979 Trumbull County United Way ends its four-week campaign with pledges of $1.55 million, or 101 percent of its goal.

1968: Louis Biskach, who has been manager of Chevrolet Motor Division’s car and truck assembly plant in St. Louis, Mo., is the new manager of the Lordstown assembly plant.

Hans G. Fleischner, commercial research associate for U.S. Steel Corp., says the next Congress is expected to act on demands for limitations on foreign steel imports.

Mahoning Valley Farms Inc., headed by John A. Vecchione, is building a $500,000 mushroom-growing facility in North Lima that will produce 500,000 pounds of mushrooms a year.

1943: A mysterious telephone call to police that informed them of a dead man in a grease pit at an abandoned service station on Belmont Avenue leads to the discovery of the body of John Yotsnukis, 41.

Vincent Astor, New York millionaire, purchases the Robinson store property at 132 W. Federal St. in downtown Youngstown for $271,833.

Three 2nd Ward Democratic workers confront two men in a truck who were tearing down Democratic signs in the early morning. In the truck were John J. Creighton, secretary to the police chief, and William Cafaro, owner of the Ritz bar on Wilson Avenue.