October 29

Saturday 29, 2005:

2005-Animusic 2 will be released.

Friday 29, 2004:

In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.

Thursday 29, 1998:

Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.

Saturday 29, 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).

Thursday 29, 1992:

The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.

Tuesday 29, 1991:

The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

Sunday 29, 1989:

After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.

Saturday 29, 1988:

In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.

Tuesday 29, 1985:

Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.

Wednesday 29, 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.

Friday 29, 1971:

The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).

Wednesday 29, 1969:

The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.

Thursday 29, 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.

Saturday 29, 1960:

In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

Tuesday 29, 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.

Monday 29, 1956:

Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.

Saturday 29, 1955:

The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.

Friday 29, 1948:

Safsaf massacre

Monday 29, 1945:

Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.

Sunday 29, 1944:

Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division

Thursday 29, 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.

Tuesday 29, 1929:

The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

Monday 29, 1923:

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Tuesday 29, 1901:

Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.

Friday 29, 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.

Saturday 29, 1881:

The Judge (US magazine) first published.

Thursday 29, 1863:

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.

Monday 29, 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.

Monday 29, 1787:

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

Tuesday 29, 1675:

Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.

Tuesday 29, 1658:

Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)

Monday 29, 1618:

English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

Tuesday 29, 1467:

Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege

Tuesday 29, 1422:

Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France

Monday 29, 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.

Tuesday 29, 1061:

Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II

Sunday 29, 969:

Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria

Thursday 29, 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

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