Shimla, Oct. 29 Keekli Bureau
2015
It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children.
1995
Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider, died in New York City.
1956
Israel’s army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area.
1950
King Gustav V of Sweden, a strong proponent of Swedish neutrality during World War II, died in Stockholm.
1933
American artist George Luks—one of a group of American painters popularly known as the Ashcan school because of their realistic treatment of urban scenes—died at age 66.
1901
Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley.
1897
Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, was born.
1709
The community of Cistercian nuns at Port-Royal, an abbey in France, was dispersed and exiled to other convents because of their involvement with Jansenism.
1618
British adventurer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason.
