Today is Monday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2018. There are 63 days left in the year.
Today in history
On Oct. 29, 1929, “Black Tuesday” descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America’s “Great Depression” began.
Also on this date:
In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London for treason.
In 1960, a chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.
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.
In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.
Fun fact
A total of 90 percent of text messages are read within three minutes of their delivery.
These three tweets
1. Job Counselor: “Now that you’ve flunked dental school, what’s your plan?”
Tooth Fairy: [shrugs] “I don’t know, buy ’em I guess.”
@TweetPotato314
2. I think my wife discovered that I opened a new bag of chips before the old one was finished. Just in case I suddenly disappear.
@SladeWentworth
3. Health teacher: “So, all of our bodies are about 70 percent water.”
Snowman exchange student: (raises hand).
@PhilJamesson
Trending words
“Fugacious:” adjective; (fu·ga·cious). Definition: Lasting a short time, evanescent.
From Merriam-Webster
Today’s birthdays
Bluegrass singer-musician Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers) is 81. Country singer Lee Clayton is 76. Rock musician Denny Laine is 74. Singer Melba Moore is 73. Musician Peter Green is 72. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 71. Actress Kate Jackson is 70. Actor Dan Castellaneta (TV: “The Simpsons”) is 61. Actress Finola Hughes is 59. Singer Randy Jackson is 57. Actress Joely Fisher is 51. Rapper Paris is 51. Actor Rufus Sewell is 51. Actor Grayson McCouch is 50. Actress Winona Ryder is 47. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 46. Actress Gabrielle Union is 46. Actor Trevor Lissauer is 45. Actress Milena Govich is 42. Actor Jon Abrahams is 41. Actor Ben Foster is 38. Rock musician Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend) is 34.
The Edge is compiled by Dallas Marshall. She can be contacted at dmarshall@lmtribune.com.
