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
- 437 –Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
- 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.
- 1658 –Battle of the Sound.
- 1787 –Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- 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.
- 1901 –In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 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.
- 1921 –The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
- 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”.
- 1967 –London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- 1980 –Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s murderer, leaves for New York from his home in Hawaii.
- 1983 –Over 500,000 people demonstrate against cruise missiles in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1985 –Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
- 1986 –British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- 1998 –Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
- 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.
- 1998 –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 is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
- 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.
- 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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