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 302^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 16, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,361,600 minutes 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 ‘trihectadigon’ 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 111 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 4,695 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 29 Historical Events

• 1658 –
  Battle of the Sound.
• 1921 –
  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.
• 1929 –
  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.
• 1941 –
  The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the “Great Action”.
• 1944 –
  The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
• 1953 –
  BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
• 1956 –
  The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
• 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 –
  London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
• 1971 –
  In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.

Who were born on October 29?

• 1740 –
  James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
• 1917 –
  Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
• 1925 –
  Dominick Dunne, American author (d. 2009)
• 1944 –
  Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman and sports executive (Montreal Expos)
• 1949 –
  James Williamson, American guitarist
• 1955 –
  Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
• 1958 –
  Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter
• 1976 –
  Milena Govich, American actress
• 1977 –
  Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
• 1979 –
  Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor

Who died on October 29?

• 1268 –
  Conradin, Duke of Swabia (b. 1252)
• 1590 –
  Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522)
• 1949 –
  George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
• 1957 –
  Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
• 1993 –
  Lipman Bers, American Mathematician (b.1914)
• 1994 –
  Shlomo Goren, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1918)
• 1995 –
  Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1997 –
  Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and NASA astrophysicist (b. 1947)
• 1998 –
  Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908)
• 1999 –
  Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)