SUNDAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press

Today is Sunday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2017. There are 63 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy slammed ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland, devastating coastal communities and causing widespread power outages; the stormand its aftermath were blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S.

On this date:

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

In 1901, President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted.

In 1929, Wall Street crashed on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the start of America’s Great Depression.

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

In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

In 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protesters tried but failed to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

In1987, following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Reagan announced his choiceofDouglasH. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use.

In 1994, Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at theWhiteHouse. (Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President Bill Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.)

Ten years ago: A suicide bomber rode his bicycle into a crowd of police recruits in Baqouba, Iraq, killing some 30 people.

Five years ago: Letitia Baldrige, the White House social secretary during the Kennedy administration who came to be regarded as an authority on etiquette, died in Bethesda, Maryland, at age 86.

Oneyearago: HillaryClinton lashed out at the FBI’s handling of a newemail review, leading a chorus of Democratic leaders who declared the bureau’s actions just days before the election were “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.”

Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Lee Clayton is 75. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 70. Actress Kate Jackson is 69. Actor Dan Castellaneta is 60. SingerRandy Jacksonis56. RapperParisis50. ActressWinonaRyder is 46.

Thought for Today: “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” — Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978).