Thursday, October 29, 2009

TODAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 29
1964: Jack “Murph the Surf” Murphy and a partner steal the Star of India and more than 20 other gems from New York’s American Museum of Natural History.

1929: Billions of dollars disappear from the New York Stock Exchange as the market collapses in the hardest crash in history.

1998: John Glenn, 77, makes his second trip into space 36 years after being the first American to orbit the Earth.

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