On this day in History - Oct. 29

0437 - 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
0969 - Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1038 - Aethelnoth dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1061 - Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty dies (b. 1086). Duke of Poland
1268 - Conradin dies executed (b. 1252). Duke of Swabia
1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden dies beheaded (b. 1249)
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.
1340 - Batalha do Salado, pela defesa da Península Ibérica da invasão dos mouros (veja também Reconquista) 1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher, was born.
1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert dies (b. 1522). Dutch politician and theologian
1591 - Início do pontificado do Papa Inocêncio IX
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh dies executed (b. 1554). English explorer
1650 - David Calderwood dies (b. 1575). Scottish historian
1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley was born (d. 1742). English astronomer
1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder dies (b. 1600). English Presbyterian leader.
1666 - James Shirley dies (b. 1596). English dramatist.
1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was born (d. 1761). French historian
1690 - Martin Folkes was born (d. 1754). English antiquarian
1704 - John Byng was born (d. 1757). British admiral
1740 - James Boswell was born (d. 1795). Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson
1762 - Andre-Marie Chenier was born. French poet (Elegies).
1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies (b. 1717). French mathematician and encyclopædist.
1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
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.
1815 - Daniel Emmett was born (d. 1904). American composer.
1853 - Pierre Joseph Guillaume Zimmermann dies. Composer.
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - 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.
1870 - António José de Ávila assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
1873 - Guillermo Valencia was born. Colombian poet.
1877 - Wilfred Rhodes was born (d. 1973). English cricketer
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest dies (b. 1821). American Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
1881 - The Judge (US magazine) first published.
1882 - Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was born. President of El Salvador (1931-1934 e 1935-1944)
1882 - Jean Giraudoux was born (d. 1944). French writer. His plays included “Eglantine” and “Provinciales.”
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.
1891 - Fanny Brice was born (d. 1951). American singer and comedienne
1897 - Joseph Goebbels was born (d. 1945). Nazi Minister of Propaganda
1899 - Akim Tamiroff was born (d. 1972). Russian actor
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz dies (b. 1873). American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
1902 - Flávio Rodrigues da Silva was born. Portuguese musician (fado)
1905 - Étienne Desmarteau dies (b. 1873). Canadian athlete.
1910 - Alfred Ayer was born (d. 1989). British philosopher
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer dies (b. 1847). Hungarian-born newspaper publisher.
1914 - Peyo Yavorov dies. Bulgarian dramatist and poet
1914 - Edmond Polynice assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Haiti.
1915 - William Berenberg was born (d. 2005). American physician and Harvard professor
1919 - A. B. Simpson dies (b. 1843). Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College
1921 - Bill Mauldin was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-winning [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie
1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1923 - Carl Djerassi was born. Austrian chemist
1925 - Dominick Dunne was born. American author
1926 - Jon Vickers was born. Canadian tenor
1927 - Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff uncovered the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. The market crashed.
1930 - Omara Portuondo was born. Cuban singer.
1935 - Takahata Isao was born. Japanese director of animated movies
1936 - O primeiro grupo de prisioneiros políticos chega ao Campo de concentração do Tarrafal, constituída por 157 deportados, formado por dirigentes anarquistas, comunistas e sindicais.
1938 - Luis Ricardo Rizo Avellaneda was born. Argentine militar.
1938 - Ralph Bakshi was born. Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
1940 - Connie Mack was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 - Frida Boccara was born (d. 1996). French singer
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.
1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
1944 - Otto Wiesheu was born. German minister
1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1946 - Peter Green was born. English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss was born. Academy award winning actor ( The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford)
1948 - Kate Jackson was born. American actress
1948 - Safsaf massacre
1948 - Manuel A. Odría assume a presidência do Peru
1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff dies (b. 1872). , Armenian mystic.
1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden dies (b. 1858)
1953 - William Kapell dies (b. 1922). American pianist.
1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1956 - Wilfredo Gomez was born. Puerto Rican boxer
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.
1957 - Louis B. Mayer dies (b. 1885). American film producer.
1958 - Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak's novel “Dr. Zhivago” was on the best seller list in the west.
1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1960 - Finola Hughes was born. British actress
1961 - Randy Jackson was born. American musician
1963 - Adolphe Menjou dies (b. 1890). American actor.
1964 - Yasmin Le Bon was born. British model
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.
1966 - Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich dies. President of Costa Rica (1962-1966)
1968 - Johann Olav Koss was born. Norwegian speed skater
1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
1970 - Philip John William Cocu was born. Dutch football player
1970 - Edwin Van der Sar was born. Dutch football player
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966)
1971 - Winona Ryder was born. American actress (Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas )
1971 - Duane Allman dies (b. 1946). American musician.
1971 - Arne Tiselius dies (b. 1902). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1972 - Takafumi Horie was born. Japanese entrepreneur
1972 - Florencia Raggi was born. Argentine model and actress
1973 - Gabrielle Union was born. American actress
1973 - Robert Pirès was born. French footballer
1974 - Michael Vaughan was born. English cricketer
1977 - Brendan Fehr was born. Canadian actor
1978 - Travis Henry was born. American football player
1980 - Ben Foster was born. American actor
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.
1981 - Amanda Beard was born. American swimmer
1981 - Jonathan Brown was born. Australian footballer
1981 - Georges Brassens dies (b. 1921). French singer.
1983 - Maurice Clarett was born. American football player.
1983 - Ana Cristina César dies (b. 1952). Brazilian poetess.
1983 - Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
1984 - Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1985 - Portugal: Aníbal Cavaco Silva é indigitado para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1987 - Makoto Ogawa was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 - Woody Herman dies (b. 1913). American musician.
1988 - In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1992 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1993 - Masahiro Makino dies. Japanese film director.
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).
1994 - Em Moçambique, Joaquim Chissano e a FRELIMO obtêm a maioria nas eleições.
1995 - Terry Southern dies in New York City (b.1924). Writer (Candy, The Magic Christian). He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Easy Rider (1969).
1996 - Graham Swift won the Booker Prize for his comic novel “Last Orders.”
1997 - Anton LaVey dies (b. 1930). American founder of the Church of Satan
1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.
1998 - In Goteberg, Sweden, a fire burned a discotheque with hundreds of teenagers and 63 people were killed. In 2000 four young men were sentenced to prison terms of 3-8 years.
2003 - Hal Clement dies (b. 1922). American writer
2003 - Franco Corelli dies (b. 1921). Italian tenor
2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc dies (b. 1923). Dominican politician
2004 - Peter Twinn dies (b. 1916). English mathematician and World War II code-breaker.
2004 - Jacinto João dies (b. 1944). Portuguese football player (V. Setúbal)
October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Narcissus, Diwali in 1989, St. Abraham of Rostov, St. Anne , St. Bond ,St. Zenobius ,St. Terence of Metz ,St. Theodore , St. Colman of Kilmacduagh ,St. Donatus of Corfu ,Douai Martyrs ,St. Elfleda ,St. Hyacinth ,St. John of Autun ,Bl. Martyrs of Douai , St. Maximilian.
Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
Dia Nacional do Livro (Brasil) (Lei 5191/66).