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There were elections in 1929 to the United States House of Representatives: ... (Republican) 42.29%; Georgia 5: Leslie J. Steele: Democratic 1926: Incumbent died July ...
October 24–29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government). October 24 – The Mount Hope Bridge, connecting Portsmouth to Bristol in Rhode Island, opens to traffic.
However, the one-day crash of Black Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6%, as well as Black Monday of March 16, 2020 (−12.9%), were worse in percentage terms than any single day of the 1929 crash (although the combined 25% decline of October 28–29, 1929, was larger than that of October 19, 1987, and ...
On election day, 5 November 1929, Democratic nominee James Hubert Price won the election by a margin of 80,805 votes against his opponent Republican nominee C. B. Jones, thereby retaining Democratic control over the office of lieutenant governor. Price was sworn in as the 23rd lieutenant governor of Virginia on 20 January 1930. [2]
In late October, Agnew survived an exposé in The New York Times that questioned his financial dealings in Maryland, with Nixon denouncing the paper for "the lowest kind of gutter politics". [105] In the election on November 5, the Republicans were victorious, with a narrow popular vote plurality – 500,000 out of a total of 73 million votes cast.
War in Afghanistan, October 7, 2001 – August 30, 2021. The United States and allies invade Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. The War in Afghanistan ended with the remaining troops leaving the country on August 30, 2021. President George W. Bush declares Iran, Iraq, and North Korea to be the "Axis of Evil" on January 29, 2002.
The Biden administration sued Virginia election officials Friday, alleging that they were violating federal law by purging voters flagged as potential noncitizens during the so-called quiet period ...
2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. [28] 2005 – Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people. [29]