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 303rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 16, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,600 hours 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 ‘trihectatrigon’ 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 92 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 4,330 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 29 Historical Events
- 539 BC –Cyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity. He gives the Jews permission to return to Yehud province and to rebuild the Temple; but most Jews choose to remain in Babylon.
- 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 Roman Catholic church.
- 1675 –Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
- 1901 –In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 1923 –Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1967 –London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- 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.
- 2004 –In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution which, however, failed to be ratified by all signatory countries and therefore never entered into force.
Who were born on October 29?
- 1815 –Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
- 1923 –Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
- 1926 –Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
- 1949 –Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler
- 1964 –Yasmin Le Bon, British model
- 1967 –Joely Fisher, American actress
- 1981 –Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer
- 1982 –Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
- 1983 –Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
- 1987 –Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
Who died on October 29?
- 1268 –Conradin, Duke of Swabia (b. 1252)
- 1650 –David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575)
- 1783 –Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- 1901 –Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873)
- 1911 –Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
- 1933 –Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (b. 1853)
- 1957 –Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
- 1958 –Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886)
- 1999 –Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931)
- 2004 –Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916)
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