Tukuk-OS📅 October 29
17 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on October 29? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2013 — The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
- 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.
- 2007 — Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.
- 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.
- 1998 — At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
- 1991 — Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of Gaspra.
- 1986 — British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
- 1960 — A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.
Curtiss C-46 CommandoCal Poly Mustangs footballCalifornia Polytechnic State University football team plane crash
- 1956 — The Suez Crisis began with Israel invading the Sinai Peninsula and pushing Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- 1956 — Suez Crisis: The Israel Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens in Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.
- 1955 — An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.
- 1948 — Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.
- 1883 — The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage (coin pictured) for the Hawaiian Kingdom.
- 1868 — The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to Japanese imperial forces during the Boshin War.
- 1863 — American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1831 — Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed during its passage through Parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).
1831 Bristol riotsReform Act 1832Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1792 — William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.
Births
- 1998 — Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver
- 1996 — Vince Dunn, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1996 — Mikko Rantanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1996 — Astrid S, Norwegian singer and songwriter
- 1994 — Danielle Hunter, American football player
- 1993 — Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player
- 1993 — India Eisley, American actress
- 1992 — Evan Fournier, French basketball player
- 1992 — Colin Miller, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 — Parris Goebel, New Zealand dancer and choreographer
- 1991 — Nikita Zaitsev, Russian ice hockey player
- 1990 — Ender Inciarte, Venezuelan baseball player
Deaths
- 2024 — Teri Garr, American actress and comedian (born 1944)
- 2023 — Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (born 1968)
- 2021 — Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer (born 1945)
- 2020 — Angelika Amon, Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist (born 1967)
- 2019 — John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (born 1942)
- 2015 — Luther Burden, American basketball player and coach (born 1953)
- 2015 — Ernesto Herrera, Filipino businessman and politician (born 1942)
- 2015 — Boris Kristančič, Slovene basketball player and coach (born 1931)
- 2015 — Ranko Žeravica, Serbian basketball player and coach (born 1929)
- 2014 — Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (born 1965)
- 2014 — Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1968)
- 2014 — H. Gary Morse, American businessman (born 1936)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Abraham of Rostov
- Christian feast day: Blessed Chiara Badano
- Christian feast day: Colman mac Duagh
- Christian feast day: Douai Martyrs
- Christian feast day: Gaetano Errico
- Christian feast day: James Hannington (Anglicanism)
- Christian feast day: Michele Rua
- Christian feast day: Narcissus of Jerusalem
- Christian feast day: Theuderius
- Christian feast day: October 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Coronation Day (Cambodia)
- National Cat Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Turkey) or Cumhuriyet Bayramı
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