October 29rd All Events |
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| October 29th, 2007 (October 29 2007) | Event | Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. | |
| October 29th, 2006 (October 29 2006) | Death | Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (born in 1928) | |
| October 29th, 2005 (October 29 2005) | Event | 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60. | |
| October 29th, 2004 (October 29 2004) | Event | 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. | Osama bin Laden Quotes |
| October 29th, 2004 (October 29 2004) | Event | In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution. | |
| October 29th, 2004 (October 29 2004) | Death | Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (born in 1923) | |
| October 29th, 2004 (October 29 2004) | Death | Vaughn Meader, American comedian (born in 1936) | |
| October 29th, 2004 (October 29 2004) | Death | Peter Twinn, English mathematician (born in 1916) | |
| October 29th, 2003 (October 29 2003) | Death | Hal Clement, American writer (born in 1922) | |
| October 29th, 2003 (October 29 2003) | Death | Franco Corelli, tenor (born in 1921) | |
| October 29th, 2002 (October 29 2002) | Event | Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime. | |
| October 29th, 2002 (October 29 2002) | Death | Glenn McQueen, American animator (born in 1960) | |
| October 29th, 1999 (October 29 1999) | Event | Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India. This event was known as 1999 Orissa cyclone ever since. | |
| October 29th, 1999 (October 29 1999) | Death | Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (born in 1931) | |
| October 29th, 1998 (October 29 1998) | Event | Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. | |
| October 29th, 1998 (October 29 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1998 (October 29 1998) | Event | ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission. | |
| October 29th, 1998 (October 29 1998) | Event | 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 Switzerlandied in 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. | |
| October 29th, 1998 (October 29 1998) | Event | Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras. | |
| October 29th, 1998 (October 29 1998) | Death | Paul Misraki, French songwriter (born in 1908) | |
| October 29th, 1997 (October 29 1997) | Death | Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (born in 1930) | |
| October 29th, 1995 (October 29 1995) | Death | Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born in 1924) | |
| October 29th, 1994 (October 29 1994) | Event | Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton). | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| October 29th, 1991 (October 29 1991) | Event | The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. | |
| October 29th, 1988 (October 29 1988) | Event | Pakistan s General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated. | |
| October 29th, 1987 (October 29 1987) | Birth | Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer | |
| October 29th, 1987 (October 29 1987) | Death | Woody Herman, American musician (born in 1913) | |
| October 29th, 1986 (October 29 1986) | Event | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| October 29th, 1986 (October 29 1986) | Death | Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (born in 1913) | |
| October 29th, 1985 (October 29 1985) | Event | Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia. | |
| October 29th, 1984 (October 29 1984) | Birth | Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 29th, 1983 (October 29 1983) | Event | Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, The Netherlands. | |
| October 29th, 1983 (October 29 1983) | Birth | Maurice Clarett, American football player | |
| October 29th, 1983 (October 29 1983) | Birth | Dana Eveland, American baseball player | |
| October 29th, 1983 (October 29 1983) | Birth | Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor | |
| October 29th, 1983 (October 29 1983) | Birth | Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver | |
| October 29th, 1982 (October 29 1982) | Birth | Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress | |
| October 29th, 1982 (October 29 1982) | Birth | Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer | |
| October 29th, 1981 (October 29 1981) | Birth | Amanda Beard, American swimmer | |
| October 29th, 1981 (October 29 1981) | Birth | Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer | |
| October 29th, 1981 (October 29 1981) | Birth | Reema Sen, Indian actress | |
| October 29th, 1981 (October 29 1981) | Death | Georges Brassens, French singer (born in 1921) | |
| October 29th, 1980 (October 29 1980) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1980 (October 29 1980) | Birth | Ben Foster, American actor | |
| October 29th, 1980 (October 29 1980) | Birth | B.J. Sams, American football player | |
| October 29th, 1979 (October 29 1979) | Birth | Ignasi Gimenez Renom, Catalan politician | |
| October 29th, 1978 (October 29 1978) | Birth | Travis Henry, American football player | |
| October 29th, 1977 (October 29 1977) | Birth | Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor | |
| October 29th, 1976 (October 29 1976) | Birth | Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer | |
| October 29th, 1976 (October 29 1976) | Birth | Milena Govich, American actress | |
| October 29th, 1976 (October 29 1976) | Birth | Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet | |
| October 29th, 1975 (October 29 1975) | Birth | Kelly Lin, Chinese actress | |
| October 29th, 1974 (October 29 1974) | Birth | Michael Vaughan, English cricketer | |
| October 29th, 1973 (October 29 1973) | Birth | Robert Pires, French footballer | |
| October 29th, 1973 (October 29 1973) | Birth | Eric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 29th, 1972 (October 29 1972) | Birth | Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur | |
| October 29th, 1972 (October 29 1972) | Birth | Gabrielle Union, American actress | |
| October 29th, 1972 (October 29 1972) | Birth | Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress | |
| October 29th, 1971 (October 29 1971) | Event | Vietnam War: VietnamizationThe total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966). | |
| October 29th, 1971 (October 29 1971) | Birth | Winona Ryder, American actress | |
| October 29th, 1971 (October 29 1971) | Birth | Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor | |
| October 29th, 1971 (October 29 1971) | Birth | Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer | |
| October 29th, 1971 (October 29 1971) | Death | Duane Allman, American musician (born in 1946) | |
| October 29th, 1971 (October 29 1971) | Death | Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1902) | |
| October 29th, 1970 (October 29 1970) | Birth | Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer | |
| October 29th, 1970 (October 29 1970) | Birth | Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer | |
| October 29th, 1969 (October 29 1969) | Event | The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. | |
| October 29th, 1969 (October 29 1969) | Birth | Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer | |
| October 29th, 1969 (October 29 1969) | Birth | Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter | |
| October 29th, 1968 (October 29 1968) | Birth | Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater | |
| October 29th, 1968 (October 29 1968) | Birth | Tsunku, Japanese music producer | |
| October 29th, 1967 (October 29 1967) | Event | London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall. | Jack London Quotes |
| October 29th, 1967 (October 29 1967) | Event | Montreal s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors. | |
| October 29th, 1967 (October 29 1967) | Birth | Joely Fisher, American actress | |
| October 29th, 1967 (October 29 1967) | Birth | Beth Chapman, Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter | |
| October 29th, 1967 (October 29 1967) | Birth | Rufus Sewell, English actor | |
| October 29th, 1964 (October 29 1964) | Event | Tanganika and Zanzibar join to form the Republic of Tanzania. | |
| October 29th, 1964 (October 29 1964) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1964 (October 29 1964) | Birth | Yasmin Le Bon, British model | |
| October 29th, 1963 (October 29 1963) | Death | Adolphe Menjou, American actor (born in 1890) | |
| October 29th, 1961 (October 29 1961) | Event | Syria exits from the United Arab Republic. | |
| October 29th, 1961 (October 29 1961) | Birth | Randy Jackson, American musician | |
| October 29th, 1961 (October 29 1961) | Birth | Joel Otto, National Hockey League player | |
| October 29th, 1960 (October 29 1960) | Event | In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| October 29th, 1960 (October 29 1960) | Birth | Finola Hughes, British actress | |
| October 29th, 1959 (October 29 1959) | Birth | Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 29th, 1958 (October 29 1958) | Birth | David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker | |
| October 29th, 1958 (October 29 1958) | Death | Zoe Akins, American playwright (born in 1886) | |
| October 29th, 1957 (October 29 1957) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1957 (October 29 1957) | Birth | Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson | Homer Quotes |
| October 29th, 1957 (October 29 1957) | Death | Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (born in 1885) | Louis B. Mayer Quotes |
| October 29th, 1957 (October 29 1957) | Death | Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (born in 1933) | |
| October 29th, 1956 (October 29 1956) | Event | Suez Crisis begins: Israel forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. | |
| October 29th, 1956 (October 29 1956) | Event | Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco. | |
| October 29th, 1956 (October 29 1956) | Birth | Wilfredo Gomez, Puerto Rican boxer | |
| October 29th, 1955 (October 29 1955) | Event | The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. | |
| October 29th, 1955 (October 29 1955) | Birth | Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (died in 2007) | |
| October 29th, 1955 (October 29 1955) | Birth | Roger O Donnell, English musician (The Cure) | |
| October 29th, 1953 (October 29 1953) | Birth | Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 29th, 1953 (October 29 1953) | Death | William Kapell, American pianist (born in 1922) | William Kapell Quotes |
| October 29th, 1950 (October 29 1950) | Death | King Gustaf V of Sweden (born in 1858) | |
| October 29th, 1949 (October 29 1949) | Birth | James Williamson, American guitarist | William James Quotes |
| October 29th, 1949 (October 29 1949) | Birth | Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler | |
| October 29th, 1949 (October 29 1949) | Death | G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (born in 1872) | G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes |
| October 29th, 1948 (October 29 1948) | Event | Safsaf massacre | |
| October 29th, 1948 (October 29 1948) | Birth | Kate Jackson, American actress | |
| October 29th, 1947 (October 29 1947) | Birth | Richard Dreyfuss, American actor | |
| October 29th, 1947 (October 29 1947) | Birth | Helen Coonan, Australian politician | |
| October 29th, 1946 (October 29 1946) | Birth | Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) | |
| October 29th, 1946 (October 29 1946) | Birth | Lynn Carey, US-American actress and singer (Mama Lion) | |
| October 29th, 1945 (October 29 1945) | Event | Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns. | |
| October 29th, 1944 (October 29 1944) | Event | Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division | |
| October 29th, 1944 (October 29 1944) | Birth | Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker s Air Force, Wings) | |
| October 29th, 1944 (October 29 1944) | Birth | Otto Wiesheu, German minister | |
| October 29th, 1944 (October 29 1944) | Birth | Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos) | |
| October 29th, 1943 (October 29 1943) | Birth | Don Simpson, American film producer (died in 1996) | |
| October 29th, 1942 (October 29 1942) | Event | Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany s persecution of Jews. | |
| October 29th, 1942 (October 29 1942) | Birth | Bob Ross, American artist and television host (died in 1995) | |
| October 29th, 1941 (October 29 1941) | Death | Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (born in 1897) | |
| October 29th, 1940 (October 29 1940) | Birth | Frida Boccara, French singer (died in 1996) | |
| October 29th, 1940 (October 29 1940) | Birth | Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida | |
| October 29th, 1940 (October 29 1940) | Birth | Jose Ulises Macias Salcedo, Catholic bishop | |
| October 29th, 1939 (October 29 1939) | Death | Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (born in 1864) | |
| October 29th, 1938 (October 29 1938) | Birth | Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist | Ralph Bakshi Quotes |
| October 29th, 1938 (October 29 1938) | Birth | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia | |
| October 29th, 1936 (October 29 1936) | Birth | Akiko Kojima, Japanese model | |
| October 29th, 1935 (October 29 1935) | Birth | Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director | |
| October 29th, 1933 (October 29 1933) | Death | Albert Calmette, French physician (born in 1863) | |
| October 29th, 1933 (October 29 1933) | Death | Paul Painleve, French mathematician and politician (born in 1853) | |
| October 29th, 1932 (October 29 1932) | Death | Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (born in 1857) | |
| October 29th, 1931 (October 29 1931) | Birth | Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor | |
| October 29th, 1930 (October 29 1930) | Birth | Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (died in 2002) | |
| October 29th, 1930 (October 29 1930) | Birth | Natalie Sleeth, American composer (died in 1992) | |
| October 29th, 1930 (October 29 1930) | Birth | Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer | |
| October 29th, 1929 (October 29 1929) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1926 (October 29 1926) | Birth | Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor | |
| October 29th, 1925 (October 29 1925) | Birth | Dominick Dunne, American author | |
| October 29th, 1925 (October 29 1925) | Birth | Robert Hardy, English actor | |
| October 29th, 1923 (October 29 1923) | Event | Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| October 29th, 1923 (October 29 1923) | Birth | Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist | |
| October 29th, 1922 (October 29 1922) | Event | The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| October 29th, 1922 (October 29 1922) | Birth | Neil Hefti, American jazz musician | |
| October 29th, 1921 (October 29 1921) | Event | The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. | |
| October 29th, 1921 (October 29 1921) | Event | Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA. | |
| October 29th, 1921 (October 29 1921) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1921 (October 29 1921) | Birth | Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (died in 2003) | |
| October 29th, 1920 (October 29 1920) | Birth | Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate | |
| October 29th, 1920 (October 29 1920) | Birth | Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic | |
| October 29th, 1919 (October 29 1919) | Death | A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (born in 1843) | |
| October 29th, 1918 (October 29 1918) | Birth | Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (died in 2007) | |
| October 29th, 1917 (October 29 1917) | Birth | Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (died in 1993) | |
| October 29th, 1915 (October 29 1915) | Birth | William Berenberg, American physician (died in 2005) | |
| October 29th, 1913 (October 29 1913) | Event | Floods in El Salvador kill thousands. | |
| October 29th, 1911 (October 29 1911) | Death | Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (born in 1847) | |
| October 29th, 1910 (October 29 1910) | Birth | Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (died in 1989) | Alfred Ayer Quotes |
| October 29th, 1907 (October 29 1907) | Birth | Edwige Feuillere, French film actress (died in 1998) | |
| October 29th, 1906 (October 29 1906) | Birth | Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (died in 1972) | |
| October 29th, 1905 (October 29 1905) | Death | Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (born in 1873) | |
| October 29th, 1901 (October 29 1901) | Event | In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. | |
| October 29th, 1901 (October 29 1901) | Event | Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. | William McKinley Quotes |
| October 29th, 1901 (October 29 1901) | Death | Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (born in 1873) | William McKinley Quotes |
| October 29th, 1899 (October 29 1899) | Birth | Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (died in 1972) | |
| October 29th, 1897 (October 29 1897) | Birth | Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (died in 1945) | Joseph Goebbels Quotes |
| October 29th, 1891 (October 29 1891) | Birth | Fanny Brice, American singer (died in 1951) | |
| October 29th, 1886 (October 29 1886) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1882 (October 29 1882) | Birth | Jean Giraudoux, French writer (died in 1944) | Jean Giraudoux Quotes |
| October 29th, 1881 (October 29 1881) | Event | Judge (U.S. magazine) first published. | |
| October 29th, 1880 (October 29 1880) | Birth | Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (died in 1960) | |
| October 29th, 1879 (October 29 1879) | Birth | Alva B. Adams, American politician (died in 1941) | |
| October 29th, 1879 (October 29 1879) | Birth | Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (died in 1969) | Franz von Papen Quotes |
| October 29th, 1877 (October 29 1877) | Birth | Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (died in 1973) | |
| October 29th, 1877 (October 29 1877) | Birth | Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (died in 1966) | |
| October 29th, 1877 (October 29 1877) | Death | Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (born in 1821) | |
| October 29th, 1875 (October 29 1875) | Birth | Marie of Edinburgh, queen of Romania (died in 1938) | Queen of Romania Marie Quotes |
| October 29th, 1863 (October 29 1863) | Event | Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. | |
| October 29th, 1863 (October 29 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of WauhatchieForces 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. | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| October 29th, 1861 (October 29 1861) | Birth | Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (died in 1904) | |
| October 29th, 1859 (October 29 1859) | Event | Spain declares war on Morocco. | |
| October 29th, 1855 (October 29 1855) | Birth | Paul Bruchesi, archbishop of Montreal (died in 1939) | |
| October 29th, 1829 (October 29 1829) | Death | Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (born in 1751) | |
| October 29th, 1827 (October 29 1827) | Birth | Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (died in 1907) | |
| October 29th, 1822 (October 29 1822) | Birth | Mieczyslaw Halka Ledochowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (died in 1902) | |
| October 29th, 1815 (October 29 1815) | Birth | Daniel Emmett, American composer (died in 1904) | |
| October 29th, 1815 (October 29 1815) | Birth | Ludovit Stur, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (died in 1856) | |
| October 29th, 1792 (October 29 1792) | Event | 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. | William Alexander Quotes |
| October 29th, 1787 (October 29 1787) | Event | Mozart s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague. | |
| October 29th, 1783 (October 29 1783) | Death | Jean le Rond d Alembert, French mathematician (born in 1717) | |
| October 29th, 1740 (October 29 1740) | Birth | James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (died in 1795) | Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| October 29th, 1704 (October 29 1704) | Birth | John Byng, British admiral (died in 1757) | |
| October 29th, 1690 (October 29 1690) | Birth | Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (died in 1754) | |
| October 29th, 1682 (October 29 1682) | Birth | Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (died in 1761) | |
| October 29th, 1675 (October 29 1675) | Event | Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ?, for integral. | |
| October 29th, 1666 (October 29 1666) | Death | Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (born in 1600) | |
| October 29th, 1666 (October 29 1666) | Death | James Shirley, English dramatist (born in 1596) | James Shirley Quotes |
| October 29th, 1665 (October 29 1665) | Event | Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.. | |
| October 29th, 1658 (October 29 1658) | Event | Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle) | |
| October 29th, 1650 (October 29 1650) | Death | David Calderwood, Scottish historian (born in 1575) | |
| October 29th, 1618 (October 29 1618) | Event | English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. | Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes |
| October 29th, 1618 (October 29 1618) | Death | Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (born in 1554) | Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes |
| October 29th, 1590 (October 29 1590) | Death | Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (born in 1522) | |
| October 29th, 1467 (October 29 1467) | Event | Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege | |
| October 29th, 1422 (October 29 1422) | Event | Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France | |
| October 29th, 1390 (October 29 1390) | Event | First trial for witchcraft in Paris. | |
| October 29th, 1268 (October 29 1268) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 1268 (October 29 1268) | Death | Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (born in 1252) | |
| October 29th, 1268 (October 29 1268) | Death | Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (born in 1249) | |
| October 29th, 1138 (October 29 1138) | Death | Boleslaw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (born in 1086) | |
| October 29th, 1038 (October 29 1038) | Death | Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| October 29th, 1017 (October 29 1017) | Birth | Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (died in 1056) | |
| October 29th, 0969 (October 29 0969) | Event | Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria | |
| October 29th, 0529 (October 29 0529) | Event | 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. | |
| October 29th, 0437 (October 29 0437) | Event | 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 | |
