Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 29
This is a list of selected October 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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"Deh, vieni alla finestra" from Don Giovanni
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Log of the first message sent on the ARPANET
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparing for and carrying out the Russian Revolution, was established. | neutrality disputed |
| 1956 – The Suez Crisis began with Israel invading the Sinai Peninsula and pushing Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. | globalize, neutrality disputed |
| 1956 – Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1998 – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its report on apartheid in South Africa, condemning both the government and the African National Congress for committing atrocities. | refimprove |
| 2004 – Representatives of the member states of the European Union signed the European Constitution in Rome]], although it failed to be ratified. | refimprove |
| 2005 – Three explosions in Delhi, India, killed 62 people and injured at least 210 others. | unreferenced section |
| 2015 – China announced the abolition of its one-child policy, allowing families to have two children instead. | trivial pop culture references |
Eligible
- 1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, based on Don Juan, the legendary fictional libertine, premiered at the Estates Theatre in Prague.
- 1792 – Lt. William Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in what is now Oregon, U.S., and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.
- 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.
- 1955 – An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.
- 1969 – A student at UCLA sent the first message on the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute.
- 1986 – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher opened the last segment of the M25 motorway, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
- 1991 – Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
- 1998 – At 77 years old as a crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission, John Glenn became the oldest person to go to space.
- 1999 – About 10,000 people died when a tropical cyclone made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar.
- 2012 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (in terms of diameter) made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages to be the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
- Born/died: | Dirck Coornhert |d|1590| Dan Emmett |b|1815| Harriet Powers |b|1837| Narcisa de León |b|1877| Joseph Goebbels |b|1897| Diana Serra Cary |b|1918| Lipman Bers |d|1993| Jimmy Savile |d|2011
October 29: Mawlid (Sunni Islam, 2020); Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
- 539 BC – Cyrus the Great captured Babylon, incorporating the Neo-Babylonian Empire and making the Achaemenid Empire the largest in the history of the world to that time.
- 1618 – English courtier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in London after King James I reinstated a fifteen-year-old death sentence against him.
- 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: As the Israel Defense Forces captured the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf, they massacred at least 52 villagers.
- 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.
- 2013 – The first phase of the Marmaray project (train pictured) opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.
- George Abbot (b. 1562)
- Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (d. 1924)