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29 October, 2005
29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60. Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
29 October, 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. In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
29 October, 2002
Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
29 October, 1998
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. 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. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962. While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
29 October, 1994
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
29 October, 1991
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
29 October, 1989
After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
29 October, 1988
Pakistans General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
29 October, 1986
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
29 October, 1985
Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
29 October, 1983
An earthquake in Turkey kills 1,300.
29 October, 1980
Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Bases Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
29 October, 1971
Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
29 October, 1969
The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
29 October, 1967
London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
29 October, 1964
Tanganika and Zanzibar join to form the Republic of Tanzania. A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
29 October, 1961
Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
29 October, 1960
In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
29 October, 1957
Israels prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israels parliament, the Knesset.
29 October, 1956
Suez Crisis begins: Israel forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
29 October, 1955
The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
29 October, 1948
Safsaf massacre
29 October, 1945
Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
29 October, 1944
Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
29 October, 1942
Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germanys persecution of Jews.
29 October, 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.
29 October, 1923
Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
29 October, 1922
The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
29 October, 1921
The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA. 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.
29 October, 1913
Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
29 October, 1901
In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
29 October, 1886
The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
29 October, 1881
The Judge (US magazine) first published.
29 October, 1863
Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
29 October, 1859
Spain declares war on Morocco.
29 October, 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.
29 October, 1787
Mozarts opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
29 October, 1675
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ?, for integral.
29 October, 1665
Battle of Ambuila.
29 October, 1658
Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
29 October, 1618
English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
29 October, 1467
Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
29 October, 1422
Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
29 October, 1390
First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
29 October, 1268
Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
29 October, 969
Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
29 October, 437
Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius

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