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, 29,361,600 minutes 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
- 1658 –Battle of the Sound.
- 1901 –In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 1945 –Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
- 1953 –BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, California. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
- 1955 –The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- 1967 –Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 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).
- 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 is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- 1999 –A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
- 2005 –Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
Who were born on October 29?
- 1879 –Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969)
- 1926 –Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- 1944 –Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Wings)
- 1955 –Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist and television personality
- 1956 –Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1958 –Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter
- 1960 –Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
- 1976 –Milena Govich, American actress
- 1977 –Jon Abrahams, American actor
- 1983 –Dana Eveland, American baseball player
Who died on October 29?
- 1268 –Conradin, Duke of Swabia (b. 1252)
- 1321 –Stephen Uroš II, King of Serbia (b. 1253)
- 1829 –Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1751)
- 1939 –Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
- 1940 –Phan Boi Chau, Vietnamese nationalist (b. 1867)
- 1950 –King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
- 1957 –Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
- 1963 –Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1999 –Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
- 2011 –Jimmy Savile, British media personality (b. 1926)
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