TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018

On this day in history:

1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.

1863 – The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.

1880 – Bushranger Ned Kelly is sentenced to hang.

1923 – Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.

1929 – America’s Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.

1956 – Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.

1960 – Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.

1982 – Lindy Chamberlain is convicted of the murder of her baby daughter after the child's disappearance at Ayers Rock.

1990 – The UN Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein’s regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait.

1998 – South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.

1998 – The oldest known copy of Archimedes’ work sold for $2 million at a New York auction.