Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 29
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October 29: Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
- 1268 – Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou.
- 1618 – English courtier and explorer Walter Raleigh was executed in London after King James I reinstated a fifteen-year old death sentence against him.
- 1787 – The opera Don Giovanni, based on the legendary fictional libertine Don Juan and composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague.
- 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pictured) became the first President of the Republic of Turkey, a new nation founded from remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1929 – A catastrophic downturn in the New York Stock Exchange on "Black Tuesday" set off the Great Depression, triggering a chain of bankruptcies and a worldwide economic depression.
- 1998 – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its report on Apartheid in South Africa, condemning both the Apartheid Government and the African National Congress for committing atrocities.