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October 29
1682William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania. 1787Mozart's opera Don Giovanni debuted in Prague. 1923The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. 1929The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression. 1956Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis. 1966The National Organization for Women was founded. 1998John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77. 2004European leaders signed the European Union's first constitution. 
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