📜 October 29: On This Day in History |  | Paint it black |  Image: National Archives | Each of the following events happened on October 29. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Black Tuesday hits Wall Street, wiping out ~$14 billion worth of stock value in a single day (worth ~$263 billion today). It triggers a rapid erosion of confidence in the US banking system, and marked the beginning of a decade-long, worldwide Great Depression.
- B) Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off with 77-year-old astronaut and former US Senator John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
- C) A special court convened for the Salem witch trials is dissolved by the Governor William Phips of Massachusetts Bay Colony. The court relied heavily on spectral evidence, where witnesses claimed the accuser harmed them in a dream or vision.
- D) Opera "Don Giovanni," with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, premieres at the National Theater of Bohemia in Prague.
Hint: Oldest is generally last |
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🏆 Monday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🍿 THE GREATEST PET MOVIES OF ALL TIME - Old Yeller (1957)—in first by a small margin
- Babe (1995)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
- 101 Dalmations (1961)
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📜 Answers | | C, D, A, B - C) 1692 – Salem witch trials court is dissolved.
- D) 1787 – Opera “Don Giovanni” premieres. Mozart pulls an all-nighter to write the overture to the famous opera, and finishes it that morning.
- A) 1929 – Black Tuesday hits Wall Street, kicking off the Great Depression.
- B) 1998 – John Glenn becomes the oldest man in space.
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