Today in History
29 October
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29 October |
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| 1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre | ||
| 1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle | ||
| 1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX | ||
| 1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania | ||
| 1709 England/Netherlands sign anti-French "BarriŠretraktaat" | ||
| 1727 Severe earthquake in New England | ||
| 1740 James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer was born | ||
| 1762 During the Seven Years War, the Austrians were defeated by the Prussians under Prince Henry at the battle of Freiburg. It was the only Prussian victory without Frederick II in command. | ||
| 1787 Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni o sia Il Dissoluto Punito" ("Don Juan or the Rake Punished") had its first performance in Prague at the National Theatre. | ||
| 1794 French troops occupies Venlo | ||
| 1814 The first steam-powered warship, the USS Fulton, was launched at New York. It was designed by Robert Fulton | ||
| 1863 International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963) | ||
| 1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution | ||
| 1875 Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27) was born | ||
| 1888 The Constantinople Convention on Free Navigation of the Suez Canal was signed. | ||
| 1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company | ||
| 1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia | ||
| 1891 Fanny Brice, U.S. comedienne and actress was born as Fanny Borach. She had a huge following for her burlesque appearances in the Ziegfeld Follies. | ||
| 1894 1st election of Hawaiian Republic | ||
| 1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens | ||
| 1914 Russia declares war on Turkey | ||
| 1923 Turkey became a republic under its first president -- nationalist leader Kemal Ataturk. | ||
| 1915 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France | ||
| 1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1923 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire) | ||
| 1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election | ||
| 1929 Prices collapsed at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. The day became known as "Black Tuesday" and led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. | ||
| 1932 French liner Normandie is launched | ||
| 1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia | ||
| 1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault | ||
| 1942 Alaska highway completed | ||
| 1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union | ||
| 1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3 | ||
| 1945 The first U.S. Medal of Freedom awarded to a woman was given to Anna Rosenberg by Robert Porter Patterson, Secretary of War | ||
| 1947 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union | ||
| 1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam | ||
| 1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev | ||
| 1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns | ||
| 1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours) | ||
| 1956 International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco | ||
| 1956 Israeli troops crossed the border with Egypt and swept into the Sinai peninsula toward the Suez Canal. | ||
| 1957 Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament) | ||
| 1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature | ||
| 1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY | ||
| 1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee | ||
| 1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba changed its name to Tanzania. | ||
| 1972 The Black September guerrilla group hijacked a Lufthansa Boeing 727 as it flew over Turkey and demanded the release of three colleagues still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games. | ||
| 1973 Klaus Altmann, wanted in France for war crimes under the name of Klaus Barbie, was released after nearly eight months in a Bolivian jail. | ||
| 1980 A declaration by Communist party Vice-Chairman Deng Xiaoping that Chairman Mao made serious political mistakes during his rule was made public. | ||
| 1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Phila Phillies | ||
| 1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria | ||
| 1991 Galileo passes within 600 miles of asteroid Gaspra | ||
| 1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC) | ||
| 1996 An auction of 8,000 Austrian Jewish artworks plundered by Adolf Hitler's Nazis in World War II took place at the Vienna Museum for Applied Arts. Proceeds went to Austrian Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. | ||
| 1997 The U.N. Security Council voted to impose air and travel sanctions against Angola's UNITA movement and close its offices abroad as punishment for flouting peace accords | ||