Information about 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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