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312 \u2013 Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and stages a grand adventus<\/em> in the city.<\/p>\n 1792 \u2013 Mount Hood, Oregon is named after Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton on sighting the mountain.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 18 countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross, reversing the Swiss Colors as the logo of the organization in honor of the nation.<\/p>\n 1888 \u2013 The Convention of Constantinople<\/em> is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.<\/p>\n 1901 \u2013 Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, is executed by electrocution.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 The Ottoman Empire enters World War I on the side of Germany by staging naval raids in the Black Sea against Russian ports, with ships bought and crewed by Germans.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 The New York Stock Exchange crashes again, dropping an additional 30.57 points (11.73%) , for a total drop of 23% in 2 days.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Leading clergymen and political figures in the United Kingdom hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Flight 304, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near San Francisco killing all 19 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 An Arctic-Pacific Company, Curtiss C-46 Commando, chartered to\u00a0 carry the California Polytechnic university Mustangs<\/em> football team, crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio, killing 26 of the 48 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The first ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 The 3 surviving perpetrators of the Munich Olympic massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 The secret demonstration flight of a C-130 aircraft, specially modified for extremely short landing and takeoff, to be used in a second Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt, ends in a crash landing, with no casualties, at Eglin Air Force Base’s Duke Field, Florida, leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.<\/em><\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House, and is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Space Shuttle mission STS-95 blasts off with 77-year-old John Glenn on board Shuttle Discovery<\/em>, making him the oldest person to go into space, at the time, and the only Mission Mercury<\/em> astronaut to fly on a Shuttle.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video in which the terrorist Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Hurricane Sandy<\/em> hits the east coast of the United States at category 3 power, killing 148 people and causing $70 billion in damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 29 312 \u2013 Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and stages a grand adventus in the city. 1792 \u2013 Mount Hood, Oregon is named after Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. 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