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
- 312 –Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius’ body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
- 1611 –Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
- 1675 –Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1886 –The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
- 1918 –The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
- 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.
- 1923 –Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1929 –The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
- 1942 –The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.
- 1955 –The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- 1957 –Israel’s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
- 1960 –In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- 1969 –The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
- 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.
- 1985 –Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- 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, makes landfall in Honduras.
- 1999 –A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
- 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.
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