Today in History - History - October 29th

1945Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns.

1958Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

1682William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania

1982Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"

1960Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6

1967Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open

1618English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

2004The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

1897[Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Rheydt, Germany, Nazi Reich Minister of Information and Propaganda

1953Denis Potvin, Vanier Ontario, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)

1938Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia

1971Winona Ryder, [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)

1959Mike Gartner, Ottawa Ontario, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)

1948Kate Jackson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)

1885George McClellan, Union army major general, dies of a heart attack at 58

1618Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for treason

1783Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosophe/mathematician, dies at 66

1877Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56