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 302nd 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, 1,761,696,000 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 ‘trihectadigon’ day.
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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.
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October 29 Historical Events
- 969 –Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria.
- 1618 –English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
- 1787 –Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- 1921 –The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
- 1922 –The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
- 1953 –BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
- 1961 –Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
- 1967 –Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 1980 –Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
- 1986 –British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
Who were born on October 29?
- 1906 –Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1972)
- 1915 –William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
- 1917 –Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
- 1940 –Galen Weston, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
- 1945 –Melba Moore, American singer
- 1947 –Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
- 1949 –James Williamson, American guitarist
- 1950 –Abdullah Gul, Turkish President
- 1959 –Jesse Barfield, American baseball player
- 1974 –Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
Who died on October 29?
- 1038 –Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1783 –Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- 1897 –Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (b. 1839)
- 1905 –Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
- 1932 –Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
- 1933 –Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863)
- 1941 –Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- 1949 –George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
- 1997 –Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and NASA astrophysicist (b. 1947)
- 2004 –Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
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