History for October 29
History for October 29 - On-This-Day.com- 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.
- 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
- 1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
- 1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.
- 1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
- 1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status
- 1998 - South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.
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