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- 0529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
- 0969 Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
- 1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
- 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
- 1422 Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
- 1467 Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
- 1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
- 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer and colonizer, is executed for conspiring against James I.
- 1658 Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
- 1665 Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
- 1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, , for integral.
- 1682 William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania
- 1682 William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, lands at what is now Chester, PA.
- 1727 Severe earthquake in New England
- 1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- 1787 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
- 1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
- 1808 The last punishment for witchcraft is administered in England.
- 1811 The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
- 1833 The first US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
- 1863 Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
- 1863 Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 1863 The International Red Cross is established.
- 1867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
- 1881 The Judge (US magazine) first published.
- 1886 The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
- 1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
- 1894 The first election of the Hawaiian Republic
- 1901 Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- 1901 In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 1901 Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President McKinley, is put to death in the electric chair.
- 1904 The first intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
- 1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
- 1912 The size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order.
- 1913 Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
- 1921 Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.
- 1921 The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
- 1921 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
- 1922 The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
- 1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway
- 1923 The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed.
- 1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)
- 1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
- 1924 The ends of the Holland Tunnel meet under the Hudson River in New York City.
- 1929 Black Tuesday, where fearful investors crashed the New York Stock Exchange through their panicked selling of stocks, starts the Great Depression in America.
- 1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
- 1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
- 1942 Alaska highway completed
- 1942 Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
- 1944 Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
- 1945 Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
- 1945 The first ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
- 1948 Safsaf massacre
- 1955 The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- 1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
- 1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
- 1956 Suez Crisis begins: Israel forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- 1956 Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
- 1956 The Huntley-Brinkley Report nightly newscast premieres on NBC TV.
- 1957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
- 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
- 1957 Visitor posting - Richard Peter Vogel (now known as Richard Peter Peterson) was born at Doctor's Hospital in Seattle, WA
- 1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
- 1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
- 1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- 1960 Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
- 1961 Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
- 1962 Visitor posting - Terry Dale Bailey is born in Owosso Michigan - USA
- 1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
- 1964 A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- 1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
- 1964 Tanganika and Zanzibar join to form the Republic of Tanzania.
- 1964 Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee
- 1966 National Organization of Women founded
- 1966 The National Organization for Women is founded.
- 1967 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- 1967 Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 1969 The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- 1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills first
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
- 1979 50 years after the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protestors fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1980 Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
- 1981 Visitor posting - Oct 29,1981 Mary S was born in Daytona Beach
- 1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
- 1982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"
- 1983 An earthquake in Turkey kills 1,300.
- 1983 Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, The Netherlands.
- 1985 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
- 1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
- 1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
- 1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
- 1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
- 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
- 1988 Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
- 1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
- 1989 After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
- 1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
- 1990 Visitor posting - Alissa Philpot is born in NH. - USA
- 1991 The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- 1993 Visitor posting - best brother Jared Raymond Roger Morton Berryman is Born - Canada
- 1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires more than two dozen shots at the White House, and is later sentenced to 40 years in prison.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Jasmine Tromp was born a gift to the world - Canada [email protected]
- 1996 Visitor posting - Sydney Birthday - Canada
- 1998 ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
- 1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
- 1998 While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Abdallah abdallah was born - Nigeria
- 1998 Visitor posting - Rikard was born - Norway
- 1999 Visitor posting - Taylor Marie was born, A beautiful baby girl!!
- 2002 Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
- 2004 In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
- 2004 The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- 2005 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Cesar Javier was born in Silver Spring, MD at 12:49 AM
- 2007 Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
- 2009 12 are killed by an IOC depot fire in Jaipur, Army is called.
- 2009 A Thai cargo ship is hijacked in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia.
- 2009 A gunman opens fire at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States, and wounds two people.
- 2009 Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen says a deal at a UN climate change summit in December is unlikely.
- 2009 English Premier League footballer Marlon King is convicted of sexual assault, imprisoned and sacked by his club Wigan Athletic F.C.
- 2009 India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces a "new chapter" in the Jammu and Kashmir peace process, and withdraws some troops from the region.
- 2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the government is ready for a deal on its nuclear program.
- 2009 Kenya is to carry out its first census on its gay population to combat HIV/AIDS, even though homosexuality is banned in the country.
- 2009 Rwandan man Désiré Munyaneza is given a life sentence in Canada for his role in the Rwandan genocide under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.
- 2009 South Korea arrests a college lecturer accused of spying for North Korea, saying he was recruited by North Korean agents in India.
- 2009 The African Union imposes a travel ban on the leader of Guinea's military junta, Moussa Dadis Camara, and 41 of his colleagues and freezes their bank accounts.
- 2009 The Haitian Senate votes to remove Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis.
- 2009 The United States unofficially exits recession in the third quarter, growing at 3.5%.
- 2009 The composer and pianist Elton John cancels his 30 October final date of The Red Piano Tour scheduled for The O2, Dublin, due to declining health.
- 2009 The de facto regime in Honduras files suit with the International Court of Justice over Brazil's continued harbouring of exiled president Manuel Zelaya in its Tegucigalpa embassy.
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