Merriam-Webster dictionary defines history as a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events. It’s a chronological record of significant events often including an explanation of their causes. The earliest known use of the word history was in the 14th century.
This website utilizes entries from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are currently 105,060 records in our database. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.
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About October 29
October 29, 2024 is the 303rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 92 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 29
- 1611 –Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
- 1863 –Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 1901 –Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
- 1921 –The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
- 1944 –The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- 1945 –Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
- 1971 –In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
- 1986 –British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- 1998 –ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
- 1998 –Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
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