October 29

October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining.

Events:

• 1682 - William Penn arrives in Pennsylvania
• 1863 - International Red Cross[?] established
• 1923 - Turkish republic founded
• 1929 - New York Stock market crashes
• 1942 - Alaska Highway completed
• 1955 - Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol
• 1956 - Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula - Suez Crisis
• 1956 - Tangier[?] returned to Morocco
• 1966 - National Organization for Women[?] founded
• 1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Public Theater in Greenwich Village

Births:

• 1740 - James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson (+ 1795)
• 1815 - Daniel Emmett[?], composer of Dixie
• 1879 - [[Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary
• 1891 - Fanny Brice[?], singer (+ 1951)
• 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (+ 1945)
• 1899 - Akim Tamiroff[?], actor (+ 1972)
• 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
• 1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
• 1923 - Carl Djerassi[?], chemist, inventor of the birth control pill
• 1925 - Dominick Dunne[?], author
• 1929 - Leon Redbone[?], musician
• 1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
• 1938 - Ralph Bakshi, cartoonist, film director, video producer
• 1945 - Melba Moore[?], singer, actress
• 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor
• 1948 - Kate Jackson[?], actress
• 1956 - Wilfredo Gomez, three time world boxing champion
• 1971 - Winona Ryder, actor

Deaths:

• 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer (executed)
• 1783 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
• 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan
• 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin
• 1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing'
• 1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden
• 1957 - Louis B. Mayer[?], film producer
• 1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor
• 1971 - Duane Allman[?], musician
• 1987 - Woody Herman[?], jazz musician
• 1997 - Anton LaVey, founder, Church of Satan

Holidays:

• Turkey - National Day[?]

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