October 29
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining.
Events:
- 1682 - William Penn arrives in Pennsylvania
- 1863 - International Red Cross[?] established
- 1923 - Turkish republic founded
- 1929 - New York Stock market crashes
- 1942 - Alaska Highway completed
- 1955 - Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol
- 1956 - Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula - Suez Crisis
- 1956 - Tangier[?] returned to Morocco
- 1966 - National Organization for Women[?] founded
- 1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Public Theater in Greenwich Village
Births:
- 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)
- 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
- 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, actor
Deaths:
- 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer (executed)
- 1783 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
- 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan
- 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin
- 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:
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
October 28 - October 30 - November 29 - September 29 - more historical anniversaries
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