The Red Cross is formed, the New York Stock Exchange crashes on "Black Tuesday," Cassius Clay fights for the first time, and John Glenn returns to space, all on this day.
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1998: In London, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman accept substantial, undisclosed libel damages from the Express Newspapers for an article run on Oct. 5, 1997, that claimed both were homosexual and their marriage was a sham to cover the truth.