October 29

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Ellen Johnson Sirleaf president of Liberia READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1929 Collapse of U.S. stock market prices READ MORE

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2015: It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about China.]

1998: Hurricane Mitch made landfall, hitting northern Honduras; one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, it caused some 11,000 deaths in Central America. [Test your knowledge of disasters of historic proportions.]

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. [Take our ultimate art quiz.]

1923: The Republic of Turkey was established, largely through the efforts of Kemal Atatürk, who is considered the country's founder and served as its first president. [Test your knowledge of Turkish and Ottoman history.]

1897: Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, was born. [Take our quiz about infamous Nazis.]

1995: Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider, died at age 71. [Take our movie quiz.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1897 Joseph Goebbels German propagandist

1947 Richard Dreyfuss American actor

1950 Abdullah Gül president of Turkey

1938 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf president of Liberia

1891 Fanny Brice American actress

1879 Franz von Papen German statesman

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