TODAY IN HISTORY

OnOct. 29, 1901, PresidentWilliamMcKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gahsh), was electrocuted.

In 1929, “Black Tuesday” descended upon theNew York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling, and thousands of investorswere wiped out as America’s “Great Depression” began.

In 1940, a blindfolded Secretary ofWarHenry L. Stimson drew the first number— 158— froma glass bowl in America’s first peacetime military draft.

In 1956, during the Suez

Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Also: “TheHuntley-Brinkley Report” premiered as NBC’s nightly television newscast.

In 1960, a chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic StateUniversity football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.

In 1967, Expo 67 inMontreal, Quebec, Canada, closed after six months.

In 1987, following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on theU.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announced his choice of DouglasH. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use. Also: Jjazz great

WoodyHerman died in Los Angeles at age 74.

In 1994, gunman Francisco MartinDuran firedmore than two dozen shots from a semi-automatic rifle at the WhiteHouse. (Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton andwas sentenced to 40 years in prison.)

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

superstorm Sandy slammed ashore and slowly marched inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the storm and its aftermathwere blamed for 182 deaths.

In 2012,