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Events on the 29th of October in history

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29 Oct 0312 Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
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29 Oct 0437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
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29 Oct 0439 Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago
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29 Oct 0539 Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire) entered capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land.
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29 Oct 0539 -BC- Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia
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29 Oct 0969 Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria.
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29 Oct 1268 Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
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29 Oct 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
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29 Oct 1422 Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France though he isn't officially crowned king until 1429.
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29 Oct 1467 Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liège.
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29 Oct 1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre
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29 Oct 1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
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29 Oct 1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX
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29 Oct 1591 Pope Innocent IX is elected.
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29 Oct 1611 Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
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29 Oct 1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
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29 Oct 1658 Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
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29 Oct 1665 Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king António I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
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29 Oct 1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
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29 Oct 1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania
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29 Oct 1682 William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania
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29 Oct 1727 Severe earthquake in New England
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29 Oct 1787 Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
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29 Oct 1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
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29 Oct 1787 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
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29 Oct 1792 Mount 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.
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29 Oct 1794 French troops occupies Venlo
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29 Oct 1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
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29 Oct 1814 "Demologos, " 1st steam-powered warship, is launched
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29 Oct 1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
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29 Oct 1863 International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
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29 Oct 1863 Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
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29 Oct 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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29 Oct 1863 Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
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29 Oct 1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution
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29 Oct 1867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
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29 Oct 1872 J S Risdon patents metal windmill
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29 Oct 1886 The first ticker tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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29 Oct 1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company
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29 Oct 1888 The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
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29 Oct 1889 New York Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
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29 Oct 1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia
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29 Oct 1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
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29 Oct 1894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
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29 Oct 1901 In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
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29 Oct 1901 Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
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29 Oct 1904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
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29 Oct 1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
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29 Oct 1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
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29 Oct 1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
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29 Oct 1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea
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29 Oct 1915 Aristide Briand becomes Premier of France
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29 Oct 1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
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29 Oct 1918 The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
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29 Oct 1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of New York Yankees
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29 Oct 1920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
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29 Oct 1921 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
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29 Oct 1921 Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.
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29 Oct 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.
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29 Oct 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
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29 Oct 1923 Army move SPD / KPD-Government to German part of Saxon
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29 Oct 1923 Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
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29 Oct 1923 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)
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29 Oct 1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
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29 Oct 1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway
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29 Oct 1923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)
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29 Oct 1924 "Dixie to Broadway, " opens at Broadhurst Theater
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29 Oct 1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election
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29 Oct 1929 "Black Tuesday" Stock Market crashes trigger the Great Depression
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29 Oct 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.
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29 Oct 1930 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs. Toronto Balmy Beach
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29 Oct 1930 1st football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights
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29 Oct 1932 French liner Normandie is launched
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29 Oct 1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
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29 Oct 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
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29 Oct 1940 Secretary of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
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29 Oct 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".
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29 Oct 1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
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29 Oct 1942 The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
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29 Oct 1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
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29 Oct 1942 Alaska highway completed
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29 Oct 1942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
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29 Oct 1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
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29 Oct 1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth
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29 Oct 1944 Breda freed
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29 Oct 1944 Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland
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29 Oct 1944 The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
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29 Oct 1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
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29 Oct 1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish
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29 Oct 1945 Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
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29 Oct 1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
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29 Oct 1947 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands form Benelux Union
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29 Oct 1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam
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29 Oct 1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev
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29 Oct 1948 Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee and massacre villagers after they surrender.
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29 Oct 1950 British Minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
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29 Oct 1950 Wally Triplett averages 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
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29 Oct 1953 A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns
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29 Oct 1953 BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
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29 Oct 1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
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29 Oct 1954 Sweden begins experimental TV
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29 Oct 1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
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29 Oct 1955 Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) and 25,000m (1:16:36)
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29 Oct 1955 The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
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29 Oct 1956 Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
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29 Oct 1956 The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
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29 Oct 1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
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29 Oct 1956 IDF crosses Egyptian territory in the Sinai
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29 Oct 1956 International zone of Tangier returned to Morocco
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29 Oct 1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
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29 Oct 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
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29 Oct 1957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
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29 Oct 1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
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29 Oct 1958 Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
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29 Oct 1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on New York Randalls Is, announced
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29 Oct 1960 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight
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29 Oct 1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
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29 Oct 1960 An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
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29 Oct 1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
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29 Oct 1960 Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
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29 Oct 1961 Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
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29 Oct 1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
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29 Oct 1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
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29 Oct 1964 Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York
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29 Oct 1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
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29 Oct 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.
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29 Oct 1964 Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee
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29 Oct 1966 National Organization of Women founded
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29 Oct 1967 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
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29 Oct 1967 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
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29 Oct 1967 Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
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29 Oct 1969 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
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29 Oct 1969 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
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29 Oct 1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
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29 Oct 1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast
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29 Oct 1971 In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
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29 Oct 1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
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29 Oct 1972 The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
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29 Oct 1972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
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29 Oct 1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
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29 Oct 1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim
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29 Oct 1977 "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
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29 Oct 1979 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
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29 Oct 1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
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29 Oct 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.
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29 Oct 1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
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29 Oct 1982 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"
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29 Oct 1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
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29 Oct 1982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"
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29 Oct 1983 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
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29 Oct 1984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win New York Marathon
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29 Oct 1985 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
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29 Oct 1986 Kirk Muller scores New Jersey Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
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29 Oct 1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs
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29 Oct 1986 West Indies all out for 53 vs. Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)
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29 Oct 1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
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29 Oct 1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
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29 Oct 1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
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29 Oct 1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
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29 Oct 1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
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29 Oct 1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
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29 Oct 1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
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29 Oct 1989 New York City MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway
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29 Oct 1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
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29 Oct 1989 NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
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29 Oct 1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
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29 Oct 1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as New York Yankee manager
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29 Oct 1991 The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
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29 Oct 1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
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29 Oct 1994 Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
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29 Oct 1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
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29 Oct 1994 New York Lotto pays $60 million+
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29 Oct 1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
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29 Oct 1995 "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater, New York City
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29 Oct 1995 Sunday New York News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
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29 Oct 1995 US beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament
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29 Oct 1998 Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
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29 Oct 1998 Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
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29 Oct 1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
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29 Oct 1998 While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six 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 is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
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29 Oct 1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
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29 Oct 1998 The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
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29 Oct 1999 A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
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29 Oct 2002 Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
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29 Oct 2004 The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
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29 Oct 2005 Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
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29 Oct 2008 Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
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29 Oct 2012 Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
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29 Oct 2013 Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.
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29 Oct 2014 A mudslide in south-central Sri Lanka kills at least 16 people and more than 100 people missing.
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