On this day, October 29.
1956 - Videotape was used for the first time in network television programming. CBS recorded the evening news and fed the tape to West Coast stations three hours later.
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an end to all school segregation "at once."
In 1983 Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon marked its 491st week on the Billboard album chart in the U.S., making it the longest charting album in history. The previous record holder was Johnny Mathis for his album, "Johnny's Greatest Hits."
In 1998, 77-year-old Senator John Glenn blasted off back into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, 36-years after he blazed the trail for American astronauts.
In 2015, Astronaut Scott Kelly officially set the record for the longest space mission by an American. He started his mission in the International Space Station back in March and spent 342 days orbiting the Earth.
In 2015, China announced that they were putting an end to the one-child-only policy its been enforcing for more than three decades. The state news agency reported that the Communist Central Committee has approved plans to allow all couples to have two children.
And on this date in movie history in 1993...we first met Jack Skellington! Tim Burton's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas debuted in U.S. theaters.
And that's today's Almanac, on Northwest Newsradio