1/5 On October 29, 2012, the storm that began as Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey and continued on a destructive path in the Northeast. File Photo by Dennis Van Tine/UPI | License Photo Oct. 29 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in London. He had been accused of plotting against King James I. Advertisement In 1787, Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had its first performance. In 1901, Leon Czolgosz was electrocuted for the assassination of President William McKinley inside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,...