Immediately is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2025. There are 63 days left within the 12 months.
Immediately in historical past:
On Oct. 29, 1929, “Black Tuesday” descended on the New York Inventory Alternate. Inventory costs collapsed amid panicked promoting, $14 billion in worth was misplaced, and hundreds of buyers had been worn out, triggering America’s Nice Melancholy.
Additionally on this date:
In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, army adventurer and poet, was executed in London for allegedly conspiring in opposition to King James I.
In 1922, Benito Mussolini, the founding father of fascism, is appointed Italian prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III. (He was dismissed by Emmanuel in 1943 after the Allied invasion of Italy and was executed by partisans in 1945).
In 1940, a blindfolded Secretary of Conflict Henry L. Stimson drew the primary quantity — 158 — from a glass bowl in America’s first peacetime army draft.
In 1956, the Suez Disaster started as Israel invaded Egypt to grab management of the important waterway, backed by France and Britain, after its nationalization by Egypt. (Their forces finally withdrew after U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration refused to again the trouble and threatened sanctions).
In 1960, a chartered airplane carrying the California Polytechnic State College soccer group crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of 48 folks on board.
In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, returned to area aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the path he had blazed as the primary American to orbit the Earth within the Friendship 7 Mercury area capsule in 1962.
In 2012, Superstorm Sandy slammed ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland, devastating coastal communities and inflicting widespread energy outages; the storm and its aftermath had been blamed for at the very least 182 deaths within the U.S.
In 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX operated by the Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 folks on board.(5 months later, an Ethiopian Airways Max crashed after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 folks on board; the 737 MAX was grounded worldwide, and a flight-control system was implicated within the crashes.)
In 2022, greater than 150 folks had been killed and dozens extra had been injured in South Korea after being crushed by a big crowd pushing ahead on a slender road throughout Halloween festivities in Seoul.
In 2024, Hezbollah stated it had chosen cleric Naim Kassem to guide the Lebanese militant group after the killing of its longtime chief Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb in late September.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 78.
Actor Kate Jackson is 77.
Hockey Corridor of Famer Denis Potvin is 72.
Actor Dan Castellaneta (TV: “The Simpsons”) is 68.
Actor Joely Fisher is 58.
Actor Rufus Sewell is 58.
Actor Winona Ryder is 54.
Actor Tracee Ellis Ross is 53.
Actor Gabrielle Union is 53.
Olympic gold medal bobsledder Vonetta Flowers is 52.
Actor Ben Foster is 45.
Olympic gold medal swimmer Amanda Beard is 44.
