Wikipedia: October 29

October 29
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October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining.

Events

969 - Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
1061 - Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 - Great Depression begins: Black Tuesday - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis.
1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1945 - At Gimbels Department Store in New York City the first ballpoint pens go on sale (price: $12.50 each).
1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565-carat Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1988 - In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1992 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacking into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 - In Freehold, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

Births

1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56)
1740 - James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson († 1795)
1815 - Daniel Emmett, composer of Dixie
1879 - Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary
1891 - Fanny Brice, singer († 1951)
1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda († 1945)
1899 - Akim Tamiroff, actor († 1972)
1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
1923 - Carl Djerassi, chemist, inventor of the birth control pill
1925 - Dominick Dunne, author
1929 - Leon Redbone, musician
1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
1938 - Ralph Bakshi, cartoonist, film director, video producer
1945 - Melba Moore, singer, actress
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor
1948 - Kate Jackson, actress
1956 - Wilfredo Gomez, three time world boxing champion
1971 - Winona Ryder, actress

Deaths

1138 - Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer (executed)
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician and encyclopædist
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing
1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden
1957 - Louis B. Mayer, film producer
1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor
1971 - Duane Allman, musician
1987 - Woody Herman, jazz musician
1997 - Anton LaVey, founder, Church of Satan

Holidays

Turkey - National Day

October 28 - October 30 - November 29 - September 29 - more historical anniversaries

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December