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Today — October 29

17 notable things happened on October 29. Here is a selection; see the full entry.

• 2013 — The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.

  MarmarayMarmaray TunnelBosporus

• 2012 — Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.

  Hurricane SandyAtlantic hurricaneNew Jersey

• 2007 — Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.

  Dai Hong Dan incidentMogadishu

• 1999 — About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.

  1999 Odisha cycloneOdishaBhubaneswar

• 1998 — At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.

  John GlennSpace Shuttle DiscoverySTS-95

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