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 was born (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 was born. Italian physician and philosopher.
• 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 - André-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.
• 1822 - Mieczysław Cardinal Ledóchowski was born (d. 1902). Polish Catholic Cardinal
• 1827 - Marcellin Berthelot was born (d. 1907). French chemist.
• 1853 - Pierre Joseph Guillaume Zimmermann dies. Composer.
• 1855 - Paul Bruchési was born (d. 1939). Archbishop of Montreal.
• 1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin was born (d. 1904). Russian painter.
• 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.
• 1879 - Alva B. Adams was born (d. 1941). American politician.
• 1879 - Franz von Papen was born (d. 1969). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1880 - Abram Ioffe was born (d. 1960). Soviet physicist.
• 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.
• 1907 - Edwige Feuillère was born (d. 1998). French film actress.
• 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
• 1917 - Eddie Constantine was born (d. 1993). American actor/singer
• 1919 - A. B. Simpson dies (b. 1843). Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.
• 1920 - Baruj Benacerraf was born. Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
• 1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I was born. Indian Catholic
• 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.
• 1922 - Neil Hefti was born. American jazz trumpeter.
• 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.
• 1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle was born (d. 2002). French sculptor.
• 1932 - Joseph Babiński dies (b. 1857). Polish-French neurologist.
• 1933 - Albert Calmette dies (b. 1863). French physician.
• 1933 - Paul Painlevé dies (b. 1853). French mathematician and politician
• 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.
• 1936 - Akiko Kojima was born. Japanese model
• 1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was born. President of Liberia
• 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
• 1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo was born. Catholic bishop
• 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 - Denny Laine was born. English musician (Moody Blues,Wings)
• 1944 - Claude Brochu was born. Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
• 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 - Denis Potvin was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 - William Kapell dies (b. 1922). American pianist.
• 1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
• 1955 - Roger O'Donnell was born. English musician (The Cure)
• 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 - Dan Castellaneta was born. American actor
• 1957 - Louis B. Mayer dies (b. 1885). American film producer.
• 1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt dies (b. 1933). German call girl.
• 1958 - Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak's novel “Dr. Zhivago” was on the best seller list in the west.
• 1958 - David Remnick was born. American writer and editor of The New Yorker
• 1958 - Zoe Akins dies (b. 1886). American playwright.
• 1959 - Mike Gartner was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 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
• 1961 - Joel Otto was born. National Hockey League player
• 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)
• 1967 - Joely Fisher was born. American actress
• 1967 - Rufus Sewell was born. English actor
• 1968 - Johann Olav Koss was born. Norwegian speed skater
• 1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
• 1970 - Philip 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 football player
• 1974 - Michael Vaughan was born. English cricketer
• 1975 - Kelly Lin was born. Chinese actress
• 1976 - Stephen Craigan was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1977 - Brendan Fehr was born. Canadian actor
• 1978 - Travis Henry was born. American football player
• 1979 - Simone Spoladore was born. Brazilian actress.
• 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.
• 1980 - B.J. Sams was born. American football player
• 1981 - Amanda Beard was born. American swimmer
• 1981 - Jonathan Brown was born. Australian football player
• 1981 - Georges Brassens dies (b. 1921). French singer.
• 1982 - Chelan Simmons was born. Canadian actress
• 1983 - Dana Eveland was born. American baseball player
• 1983 - Richard Brancatisano was born. Australian actor
• 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
• 1984 - Eric Staal was born. Canadian hockey player
• 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.
• 1998 - Paul Misraki dies (b. 1908). French songwriter.
• 1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg) dies (b. 1931). Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon).
• 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)
• 2004 - Vaughn Meader dies (b. 1936). American comedian.
• 2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
• 2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
• 2006 - Presidential elections on Brazil (2nd. round)
• 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).