MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007

Today is Monday, October 29 the 302nd day of 2007. There are 63 days left in the year.

539 B.C. -- Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia

1787 -- The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

1894 -- The first election of the Hawaiian Republic

1923 -- Turkey proclaimed a republic

1929 -- "Black Tuesday" stock market crashes triggers the "Great Depression"

1942 -- 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia

1942 -- The Alaska highway completed

1956 -- Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open the Straits of Tiran

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

1964 -- The town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee

1966 --The National Organization of Women founded

1982 -- Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"

1988 -- 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics

1988 -- China announces a herbal male contraceptive