What are the important events that happened on October 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 29 is the 303rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 16, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,730,160,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatrigon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 92 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,330 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 29 Historical Events
539 BC –
Cyrus 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.
1467 –
Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.
1611 –
Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
1665 –
Battle 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.
1675 –
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1901 –
In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1923 –
Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1964 –
A 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.
1967 –
Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1991 –
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
Who were born on October 29?
1815 –
Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1944 –
Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman and sports executive (Montreal Expos)
1945 –
Melba Moore, American singer
1947 –
Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1951 –
Tiff Needell, British racing driver and television presenter
1959 –
Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 –
Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1980 –
B.J. Sams, American football player
1981 –
Amanda Beard, American swimmer
1981 –
Jonathan Brown, Australian Australian rules footballer
Who died on October 29?
1650 –
David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
1666 –
Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1666 –
James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
1933 –
Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
1949 –
George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
1953 –
William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
1957 –
Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
1963 –
Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
1997 –
Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
2003 –
Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
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