Actor Jed Brophy

Events in 1963 and 29-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Jed Brophy

• France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).
• Pope John XXIII dies (June 3), and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
• British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenage showgirl who was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché (June).
• Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30). Background: cold war
• Kenya achieves independence.
• There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War
• 32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.

Birthday Jed Brophy (29-10) in history

• Day 29-10 year 1682: Writer William Penn set foot in what is now Pennsylvania, USA.
• Day 29-10 year 1787: Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was premiered in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Day 29-10 year 1923: The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
• Day 29-10 year 1929: The New York Stock Exchange crashed on Black Tuesday, precipitating the Great Depression.
• Day 29-10 year 1956: Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal crisis.
• Day 29-10 year 1966: The National Organization for Women was founded.
• Day 29-10 year 1998: John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77.
• Day 29-10 year 2004: European leaders signed the European Union's first constitution.
• Day 29-10 year 2012: Hurricane Sandy smashed into the eastern seaboard of the U.S., killing 117 people in the U.S. and 69 in Canada and the Caribbean. The storm caused about $50 billion in damage in the U.S.