Oct. 29, 1984, in The Star: Jacksonville State University is one of five Alabama schools that enjoyed increase enrollment this fall. The increase was by 222, from 6,522 last fall to 6,744. Also this date: Mothers Against Drunk Driving founder Candy Lightner brought her campaign against the ongoing tragedy to Oxford this weekend when she addressed a convention of emergency medical technicians.
On October 29 in
1929 — Wall Street crashed, heralding the beginning of the Great Depression.
1940 — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number — 158 — in the lottery for America's first peacetime military draft.
1956 — During the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Also, The Huntley-Brinkley Report premiered as NBC's nightly TV newscast.
1966 — The National Organization for Women was formally organized during a conference in Washington, D.C.
1967 — Expo 67 in Montreal closed after six months.
1998 — Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier.
Thursday's birthdays: Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 62. Actress Kate Jackson is 61. The president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul, is 59. Actor Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons) is 52. Country musician Steve Kellough (Wild Horses) is 52. Comic strip artist Tom Wilson ("Ziggy") is 52. Singer Randy Jackson is 48. Rock musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 44. Actress Joely Fisher is 42. Actress Winona Ryder is 38. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 37. Actor Jon Abrahams is 32. Actor Brendan Fehr is 32. Actor Ben Foster is 29. Rock musician Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend) is 25.
