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
- 539 BC –Cyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity. He gives the Jews permission to return to Yehud province and to rebuild the Temple; but most Jews choose to remain in Babylon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1390 –First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
- 1863 –Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 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”.
- 1944 –The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- 1956 –Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- 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 –London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- 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.
- 1986 –British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
- 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 –Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
- 1998 –Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
- 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.
- 2005 –Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
- 2011 –Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.
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