OCTOBER 29
1998:At the age of 77, Sen. John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962, returns to space as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. To date, Glenn is the oldest person to travel in space.
1929: "Black Tuesday" hits the New York Stock Exchange; stock prices collapse and thousands of investors lose their savings, helping to ignite the decade-long Great Depression.
2004: Al Jazeera broadcasts excerpts from a videotape in which Osama bin Laden admits for the first time that he is responsible for ordering the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
1929: "Black Tuesday" hits the New York Stock Exchange; stock prices collapse and thousands of investors lose their savings, helping to ignite the decade-long Great Depression.
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