October 29. Black Tuesday hits the Stock Market in New York in 1929.

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October 29, 1929.  Black Tuesday hits Stock Market in New York, bringing on the Great Depression.Postcard of a toboggan crash, symbolic of stocks damaged in the market.

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October 29. Pete Richert is born in 1939.

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October 28. The Alaskan Highway is finished connecting US mainland to Fairbanks in 1942.