October 29, 1929: Stocks crash on Wall Street. This became known as “Black Tuesday”. This event triggered the Great Depression. — October 29, 1840: Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number – #158 – in the first peacetime military draft in US history. — October 29th is the birthday of fighter pilot Vermont Garrison, an American who fought in three wars – WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. He was born in 1915 and died on February 14th, 1994, in Mountain Home, Idaho. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction … The post Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — October 29, 2025 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.