1792 - Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
The 29October2005 Delhi bombings occurred on October29, 2005 in the Indian city of Delhi, killing 61 people and injuring at least 188 others [1] in three explosions.
Al Qaeda and the International Islamic Front (IIF), comprising Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad, may be responsible for the Oct 29 blasts in Delhi, according to a terrorism expert.
Thirty eight people were declared dead in Safdarjang hospital, ten in Lady Hardinge Hospital, five in Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and two in AIIMS.
On October 22, 2003, the SEC proposed new Rule 15a-5 under the 1940 Act and amendments to Form N-1A under the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act.
On October 22, 2003, the SEC voted to adopt amendments to Rule 10b-18 of the 1934 Act.
On October 23, 2003, the SEC announced that Charles D. Niemeier was reappointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for a five-year term to commence upon the completion of his current one-year term.
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