October 29
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining.
Events
- 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
- 969 - Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
- 1061 - Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
- 1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
- 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.
- 1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
- 1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
- 1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- 1792 - Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- 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.
- 1881 - The Judge (US magazine) first published.
- 1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
- 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 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
- 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.
- 1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
- 1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
- 1948 - Safsaf massacre
- 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.
- 1957 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
- 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- 1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) 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).
- 1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
- 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.
- 1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
- 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 hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- 1998 - In Freehold Borough, 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.
- 1998 - Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.
- 2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- 2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
Births
- 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1046-56)
- 1656 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer (according to the Julian calendar)
- 1740 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
- 1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer
- 1877 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1891 - Fanny Brice, American singer and comedienne (d. 1951)
- 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
- 1899 - Akim Tamiroff, actor (d. 1972)
- 1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
- 1923 - Carl Djerassi, chemist
- 1925 - Dominick Dunne, author
- 1926 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- 1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
- 1938 - Ralph Bakshi, cartoonist, film director, and video producer
- 1940 - Cornelius McGillicuddy III (Connie Mack), U.S. Senator from Florida
- 1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner (d. 1996)
- 1944 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister
- 1945 - Melba Moore, singer and actress
- 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor
- 1947 - Jeremy Stein, Wikipedia contributor
- 1948 - Kate Jackson, actress
- 1956 - Wilfredo Gomez, boxer
- 1960 - Finola Hughes, British actress
- 1961 - Randy Jackson, American musician
- 1964 - Yasmin Le Bon, model
- 1971 - Winona Ryder, actress
- 1972 - Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
- 1973 - Gabrielle Union, actress
- 1973 - Robert Pirès, French footballer
- 1974 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
- 1978 - Travis Henry, American football player
- 1981 - Amanda Beard, swimmer
- 1981 - Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer
- 1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player
Deaths
- 1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty, duke of Poland (b. 1086)
- 1268 - Conradin, duke of Swabia, titular king of Jerusalem and king of Sicily, beheaded by the order of Charles of Anjou
- 1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden {beheaded} (b. 1249)
- 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed)
- 1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist
- 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan
- 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin
- 1905 - Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete
- 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
- 1919 - A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College
- 1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing
- 1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden
- 1953 - William Kapell, American pianist
- 1957 - Louis B. Mayer, film producer
- 1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor
- 1971 - Duane Allman, musician
- 1987 - Woody Herman, jazz musician (b. 1913)
- 1997 - Anton LaVey, founder, Church of Satan
Holidays
- Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
- The feast day of the following saints:
- Saint Colman of Kilmacduagh
- Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem
External links
October 28 - October 30 - November 29 - September 29 - more historical anniversaries
See also: October 29, 1017, 1038, 1061, 1086
