Video: 'Mayday - Death and Denial (FULL)'

(Sunday, October 31, 1999, 1:52 a.m. EST) — EgyptAir Flight 990, a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Cairo International Airport, Egypt, with a stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean this morning about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, killing all 217 passengers and crew on board. Continue reading Egyptian jet carrying 217 plunges into Atlantic Ocean 20 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 31 1999) →

Video: 'The Room Where the Internet Began'

(Wednesday, October 29, 1969, 10:30 p.m. PST) — The first connection on what would become the Internet was made tonight when the first message was sent over ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, between computers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Continue reading First message sent over the Internet 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 29 1969) →

Video: '1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash' (Oct. 29, 1929, at 5:41)

(Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. EST) — On the fourth and final day of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, stock prices virtually collapsed today, swept downward with gigantic losses in the most disastrous trading day in the New York Stock Exchange’s history.

Investors traded a record 16.4 million shares as panic selling reached its peak.

Video: 'Herbert Hoover Biography' (Oct. 1929, at 12:28)

$14 billion in open market values was lost, wiping out thousands of investors and setting the stage for the Great Depression, the longest, deepest, and most widespread economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.

Video: 'The Crash of 1929 & The Great Depression (PBS) 5of6' (Oct. 29, 1929, at 6:03)

The Dow lost an additional 30 points, or 12 percent.

The Dow would continue to slide for three more years, bottoming out on July 8, 1932, having lost almost 90 percent of its value since its peak on Sept. 3, 1929.

Video: 'Prohibition in the United States: National Ban of Alcohol'

(Tuesday, October 28, 1919, afternoon EST) — The U.S. Congress today passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, enforcing the constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of alcoholic beverages. Continue reading Congress passes Volstead Act to enforce prohibition of intoxicating liquors 100 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 28 1919) →