What happened on October 29? There are more than 258 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 29
October 29 is the 303rd day of the year 2024. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 44th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Spring Glen, Pennsylvania 17978 sunrise will occur at 07:32 AM and sunset will occur at 06:07 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 92 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 29
- 539 BCCyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity. He gives the Jews permission to return to Yehud province and to rebuild the Temple; but most Jews choose to remain in Babylon.
- 312Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius’ body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
- 437Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
- 969Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria.
- 1268Conradin, 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 Roman Catholic church.
- 1390First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
- 1422Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France.
- 1467Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.
- 1611Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
- 1618English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
- 1658Battle of the Sound.
- 1665Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
- 1675Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
- 1787Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- 1792Mount 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.
- 1863American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1863Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 1886The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
- 1901Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- 1901In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 1918The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
- 1921Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.
- 1921The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
- 1921The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
- 1922The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
- 1923Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1929The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
- 1941The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the “Great Action”.
- 1942The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.
- 1944The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- 1945Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
- 1948Safsaf massacre.
- 1953BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
- 1955The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- 1956Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- 1956The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
- 1957Israel’s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
- 1960In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- 1961Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
- 1964A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is “Murph the surf”) from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- 1964The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
- 1967London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- 1967Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 1969The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- 1971In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
- 1980Demonstration 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.
- 1980Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
- 1983Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1985Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- 1986British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- 1991The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- 1994Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
- 1998ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
- 1998Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
- 1998Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
- 1998Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
- 1998The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
- 1998While 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 is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- 1999A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
- 2002Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
- 2004In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution which, however, failed to be ratified by all signatory countries and therefore never entered into force.
- 2004The 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 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- 2005Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
- 2008Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world’s largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
- 2011Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.
Who Were Born On October 29?
- 1017Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- 1682Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
- 1690Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
- 1704John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
- 1740James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
- 1815Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
- 1815Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
- 1822Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
- 1827Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
- 1832Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869)
- 1855Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
- 1861Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
- 1866Antonio Luna, Filipino revolutionary general (d. 1899)
- 1875Queen Marie of Romania (d. 1938)
- 1877Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
- 1877Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1879Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
- 1879Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969)
- 1880Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
- 1882Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1891Fanny Brice, American singer (d. 1951)
- 1897Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
- 1899Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972)
- 1906Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1972)
- 1907Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
- 1910Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (d. 1989)
- 1915William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
- 1917Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
- 1918Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
- 1920Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
- 1920Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I Catholicos, Indian Orthodox Church
- 1921Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
- 1922Neal Hefti, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
- 1923Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
- 1923Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete
- 1925Dominick Dunne, American author (d. 2009)
- 1925Robert Hardy, English actor
- 1926Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- 1929Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician
- 1930Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
- 1930Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1930Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
- 1930Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
- 1931Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
- 1935Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
- 1936Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
- 1938Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
- 1938Ralph Bakshi, American cartoonist
- 1940Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida
- 1940Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
- 1940Galen Weston, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
- 1940José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
- 1942Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
- 1942Melora Harte, American voice actor
- 1943Don Simpson, American film producer (d. 1996)
- 1944Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman and sports executive (Montreal Expos)
- 1944Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Wings)
- 1944Otto Wiesheu, German minister
- 1945Melba Moore, American singer
- 1946Lynn Carey, American actress and singer (Mama Lion)
- 1946Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1947Helen Coonan, Australian politician
- 1947Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
- 1948Frans de Waal, Dutch primatologist
- 1948Kate Jackson, American actress
- 1949David Paton, Scottish musician (Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, Camel)
- 1949James Williamson, American guitarist
- 1949Kieron Baker, English footballer
- 1949Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler
- 1950Abdullah Gul, Turkish President
- 1950Bronwen Mantel, Canadian actress and voice actor
- 1951Dirk Kempthorne, American politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior and 30th Governor of Idaho
- 1951Tiff Needell, British racing driver and television presenter
- 1953Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
- 1955Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
- 1955Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
- 1956Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1957Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor
- 1958Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter
- 1958David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker
- 1959Jesse Barfield, American baseball player
- 1959Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960Finola Hughes, British actress
- 1960Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
- 1961Joel Otto, American ice hockey player turned coach
- 1961Randy Jackson, American musician
- 1962Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic musician (The Sugarcubes)
- 1964Eddie McGuire, Australian television presenter
- 1964Yasmin Le Bon, British model
- 1967Joely Fisher, American actress
- 1967Rufus Sewell, English actor
- 1968Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater
- 1968Tsunku, Japanese music producer
- 1969Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
- 1969Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
- 1969SA Martinez, American singer (311)
- 1970Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
- 1970Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer
- 1971Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor
- 1971Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
- 1971Winona Ryder, American actress
- 1972Gabrielle Union, American actress
- 1972Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
- 1972Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
- 1973Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Robert Pirès, French footballer
- 1974Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
- 1975Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
- 1976Giorgos Kalaitzis, Greek basketball player
- 1976Milena Govich, American actress
- 1976Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
- 1977Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
- 1977Jon Abrahams, American actor
- 1977Vaggelis Kaounos, Greek footballer
- 1978Travis Henry, American football player
- 1979Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor
- 1979Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan politician
- 1980B.J. Sams, American football player
- 1980Ben Foster, American actor
- 1980Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player
- 1981Amanda Beard, American swimmer
- 1981Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer
- 1981Jonathan Brown, Australian Australian rules footballer
- 1981Reema Sen, Indian actress
- 1982Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
- 1982Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
- 1983Dana Eveland, American baseball player
- 1983Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver
- 1983Maurice Clarett, American football player
- 1983Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
- 1984Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985Jefferson Severino, Brazilian footballer
- 1986Sarita Pérez de Tagle, Filipina actress and model
- 1987Frazer McLaren, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
- 1987Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
- 1990Eric Saade, Swedish singer
- 1993India Eisley, American actress
Who Died On October 29?
- 1038Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1138Bolesław III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086)
- 1268Conradin, Duke of Swabia (b. 1252)
- 1268Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1249)
- 1321Stephen Uroš II, King of Serbia (b. 1253)
- 1590Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
- 1618Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (b. 1554)
- 1650David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
- 1666Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
- 1666James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
- 1783Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- 1829Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
- 1877Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
- 1897Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (b. 1839)
- 1901Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
- 1905Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
- 1911Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
- 1916John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (b. 1851)
- 1919A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843)
- 1932Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
- 1933Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
- 1933Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
- 1936Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer and political theorist (b. 1874)
- 1939Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
- 1940Phan Boi Chau, Vietnamese nationalist (b. 1867)
- 1941Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- 1949George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
- 1950King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
- 1953William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
- 1957Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
- 1957Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
- 1958Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
- 1963Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1971Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
- 1971Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
- 1977Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
- 1981Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
- 1986Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1913)
- 1987Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
- 1993Lipman Bers, American Mathematician (b.1914)
- 1994Shlomo Goren, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1918)
- 1995Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 1997Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and NASA astrophysicist (b. 1947)
- 1997Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
- 1998Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
- 1999Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
- 2002Glenn McQueen, American animator (b. 1960)
- 2003Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
- 2003Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922)
- 2004Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
- 2004Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
- 2004Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936)
- 2006Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928)
- 2008Mike Baker, American singer Shadow Gallery (b. 1963)
- 2011Jimmy Savile, British media personality (b. 1926)
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