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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
   * 1988 - Sega Megadrive released in Japan

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, actress

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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