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October 29
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining.
Events:
* 1682 - William Penn arrives in Pennsylvania
* 1863 - International Red Cross established
* 1923 - Turkish republic founded
* 1929 - New York Stock market crashes
* 1942 - Alaska Highway completed
* 1955 - Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in
the harbor at Sevastopol
* 1956 - Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula - Suez Crisis
* 1956 - Tangier returned to Morocco
* 1966 - National Organization for Women founded
* 1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Public Theater in Greenwich
Village
Births:
* 1740 - James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson (+ 1795)
* 1815 - Daniel Emmett, composer of Dixie
* 1879 - [[Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary
* 1891 - Fanny Brice, singer (+ 1951)
* 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (+ 1945)
* 1899 - Akim Tamiroff, actor (+ 1972)
* 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and journalist
* 1921 - Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
* 1923 - Carl Djerassi, chemist, inventor of the birth control pill
* 1925 - Dominick Dunne, author
* 1929 - Leon Redbone, musician
* 1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
* 1938 - Ralph Bakshi, cartoonist, film director, video producer
* 1945 - Melba Moore, singer, actress
* 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, actor
* 1948 - Kate Jackson, actress
* 1956 - Wilfredo Gomez, three time world boxing champion
* 1971 - Winona Ryder, actress
Deaths:
* 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer (executed)
* 1783 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician
* 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and leader of the Ku
Klux Klan
* 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin
* 1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing'
* 1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden
* 1957 - Louis B. Mayer, film producer
* 1963 - Adolphe Menjou, actor
* 1971 - Duane Allman, musician
* 1987 - Woody Herman, jazz musician
* 1997 - Anton LaVey, founder, Church of Satan
Holidays:
* Turkey - National Day
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