About October 29
October 29, 2025 is the 302nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 111 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 29
- 1467 –Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.
- 1611 –Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
- 1618 –English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1901 –In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 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.
- 1922 –The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
- 1941 –The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the “Great Action”.
- 1955 –The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
- 1961 –Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
- 1964 –A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is “Murph the surf”) from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- 1964 –The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
- 1967 –Montreal’s World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
- 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.
- 1994 –Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
- 1998 –Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
- 1999 –A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
- 2004 –In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution which, however, failed to be ratified by all signatory countries and therefore never entered into force.
- 2005 –Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
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