This Day in History
1929: Collapse of U.S. stock market prices
Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called “Black Tuesday,” further fueling the crisis known as the Great Depression.
More events on this day
1995: Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider, died in New York City.
1956: Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area.
1950: King Gustav V of Sweden, a strong proponent of Swedish neutrality during World War II, died in Stockholm.
1901: Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.
1897: Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, was born.
1709: The community of Cistercian nuns at Port-Royal des Champs, an abbey in France, was dispersed and exiled to other convents because of their involvement with Jansenism.
1618: British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason.
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