What happened this day in history October 29

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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