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October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 63 days remaining in the year on this date.
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Events 529 BC - the international day of Cyrus the Great , king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder .
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 - Byzantine 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 Roman 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 Prague .
1792 - Mount 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 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.
1921 - The Link River Dam , a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project , is completed.
1921 - The 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.
1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire .
1929 - The 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 .
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 by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City .
1969 - The first-ever computer -to-computer link is established on ARPANET , the precursor to the Internet .
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 .
1986 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway .
1988 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh , following the President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan trying to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
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 on STS-95 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 , the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras .
2002 - The Pixar animator Glenn McQueen dies of Melanomoa
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 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 .
2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London .
2006 - Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after take off in Nigeria .
2006 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the run-off elections and was re-elected for another term as President of Brazil .
Births 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056 )
1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley , English astronomer (d. 1742 )
1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix , French historian (d. 1761 )
1690 - Martin Folkes , English antiquarian (d. 1754 )
1704 - John Byng , British admiral (d. 1757 )
1740 - James Boswell , Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795 )
1815 - Daniel Emmett , American composer (d. 1904 )
1822 - Mieczysław Cardinal Ledóchowski , Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902 )
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot , French chemist (d. 1907 )
1855 - Paul Bruchési , archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939 )
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin , Russian painter (d. 1904 )
1877 - Wilfred Rhodes , English cricketer (d. 1973 )
1879 - Alva B. Adams , American politician (d. 1941 )
1879 - Franz von Papen , Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969 )
1880 - Abram Ioffe , Soviet physicist (d. 1960 )
1882 - Jean Giraudoux , French writer (d. 1944 )
1891 - Fanny Brice , American singer (d. 1951 )
1897 - Joseph Goebbels , Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945 )
1899 - Akim Tamiroff , Russian actor (d. 1972 )
1907 - Edwige Feuillère , French film actress (d. 1998 )
1910 - Alfred Ayer , British philosopher (d. 1989 )
1915 - William Berenberg , American physician (d. 2005 )
1917 - Eddie Constantine , American actor/singer (d. 1993 )
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf , Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I , Indian Catholic
1921 - Bill Mauldin , American cartoonist (d. 2003 )
1922 - Neil Hefti , American jazz trumpeter
1923 - Carl Djerassi , Austrian chemist
1925 - Dominick Dunne , American author
1925 - Robert Hardy , English actor
1926 - Jon Vickers , Canadian tenor
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle , French sculptor (d. 2002 )
1935 - Takahata Isao , Japanese animated film director
1936 - Akiko Kojima , Japanese model
1938 - Ralph Bakshi , Israeli cartoonist
1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , President of Liberia
1940 - Frida Boccara , French singer (d. 1996 )
1940 - Connie Mack , U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo , Catholic bishop
1942 - Bob Ross , American artist and television host (d. 1995 )
1943 - Don Simpson , American film producer (d. 1996 )
1944 - Denny Laine , English musician (Moody Blues ,Wings )
1944 - Otto Wiesheu , German minister
1944 - Claude Brochu , Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos )
1946 - Peter Green , English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac )
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss , American actor
1948 - Kate Jackson , American actress
1953 - Denis Potvin , Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Kevin DuBrow , American singer (Quiet Riot )
1955 - Roger O'Donnell , English musician (The Cure )
1956 - Wilfredo Gómez , Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Dan Castellaneta , American actor
1958 - David Remnick , American writer and editor of The New Yorker 1959 - Mike Gartner , Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Finola Hughes , British actress
1961 - Randy Jackson , American musician
1961 - Joel Otto , National Hockey League player
1964 - Yasmin Le Bon , British model
1967 - Joely Fisher , American actress
1967 - Rufus Sewell , English actor
1968 - Johann Olav Koss , Norwegian speed skater
1968 - Tsunku , Japanese music producer
1969 - Giorgos Donis , Greek footballer
1970 - Edwin van der Sar , Dutch footballer
1970 - Philip Cocu , Dutch footballer
1971 - Winona Ryder , American actress
1972 - Takafumi Horie , Japanese entrepreneur
1972 - Gabrielle Union , American actress
1973 - Robert Pirès , French footballer
1974 - Michael Vaughan , English cricketer
1975 - Kelly Lin , Chinese actress
1976 - Stephen Craigan , Northern Irish footballer
1976 - Milena Govich , American actress
1977 - Brendan Fehr , Canadian actor
1978 - Travis Henry , American football player
1980 - Ben Foster , American actor
1980 - B.J. Sams , American football player
1981 - Amanda Beard , American swimmer
1981 - Jonathan Brown , Australian footballer
1982 - Chelan Simmons , Canadian actress
1983 - Maurice Clarett , American football player
1983 - Dana Eveland , American baseball player
1983 - Richard Brancatisano , Australian actor
1983 - Jason Tahincioglu , Turkish racing driver
1984 - Eric Staal , Canadian hockey player
1987 - Makoto Ogawa , Japanese singer
Deaths 1038 - Aethelnoth , Archbishop of Canterbury
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty , Duke of Poland (b. 1086 )
1268 - Conradin , Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252 )
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249 )
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert , Dutch politician (b. 1522 )
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh , English explorer (executed) (b. 1554 )
1650 - David Calderwood , Scottish historian (b. 1575 )
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder , English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600 )
1666 - James Shirley , English dramatist (b. 1596 )
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician (b. 1717 )
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest , American Confederate general (b. 1821 )
1901 - Leon Czolgosz , American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873 )
1905 - Etienne Desmarteau , Canadian athlete (b. 1873 )
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847 )
1919 - A. B. Simpson , Canadian preacher (b. 1843 )
1932 - Joseph Babiński , Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857 )
1933 - Albert Calmette , French physician (b. 1863 )
1933 - Paul Painlevé , French mathematician and politician (b. 1853 )
1939 - Dwight B. Waldo , American educator and historian (b. 1864 )
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff , Armenian mystic (b. 1872 )
1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858 )
1953 - William Kapell , American pianist (b. 1922 )
1957 - Louis B. Mayer , American film producer (b. 1885 )
1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt , German call girl (b. 1933 )
1958 - Zoe Akins , American playwright (b. 1886 )
1963 - Adolphe Menjou , American actor (b. 1890 )
1971 - Duane Allman , American musician (b. 1946 )
1971 - Arne Tiselius , Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902 )
1981 - Georges Brassens , French singer (b. 1921 )
1986 - Mimis Fotopoulos , Greek actor (b. 1913 )
1987 - Woody Herman , American musician (b. 1913 )
1995 - Terry Southern , American screenwriter (b. 1924 )
1997 - Anton LaVey , American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930 )
1998 - Paul Misraki , French songwriter (b. 1908 )
1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon ) (b. 1931 )
2002 - Glenn McQueen , American animator (b. 1960 )
2003 - Hal Clement , American writer (b. 1922 )
2003 - Franco Corelli , tenor (b. 1921 )
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc , Dominican politician (b. 1923 )
2004 - Vaughn Meader , American comedian (b. 1936 )
2004 - Peter Twinn , English mathematician (b. 1916 )
2006 - Mohammadu Maccido , 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928 )
Holidays and observances
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