• Today is Tuesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2013. There are 63 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 29, 1929, Wall Street crashed on "Black Tuesday," heralding the beginning of America's Great Depression.
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• On this date:
• In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
• In 1787, the opera "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had its world premiere in Prague.
• In 1901, President William McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL'-gahsh), was electrocuted.
• In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
• In 1940, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number -- 158 -- in America's first peacetime military draft.
• In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered as NBC's nightly television newscast.
• 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 1966, the National Organization for Women was formally organized during a conference in Washington, D.C.
• In 1967, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, closed after six months.
• 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 1987, following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S.

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