Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 29

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  1831 Bristol riots
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  Mount Hood
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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  Ticker-tape parade
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  Suez Crisis
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  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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  Flag of Turkey
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  Sir Walter Raleigh
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  Asteroid 951 Gaspra
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  Log of the first message sent on the ARPANET
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  Marmaray train

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539 BC – Cyrus the Great captured Babylon, incorporating the Neo-Babylonian Empire and making the Achaemenid Empire the largest in history at that time.	Lots of cn
1268 – Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou.	needs more footnotes
1618 – English courtier and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in London after King [[James VI and I|Template:Nowrap]] reinstated a fifteen-year-old death sentence against him.	Refimprove
1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, based on Don Juan, the legendary fictional libertine, premiered at the Estates Theatre in Prague.	Too much uncited
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparing for and carrying out the Russian Revolution, was established.	date note cited
1956 – The Suez Crisis began with Israel invading the Sinai Peninsula and pushing Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.	globalize, neutrality disputed
1969 – A student at UCLA sent the first message on the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute.	Refimprove
1998 – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its report on apartheid in South Africa, condemning both the government and the African National Congress for committing atrocities.	refimprove
2004 – Representatives of the member states of the European Union signed the European Constitution in Rome]], although it failed to be ratified.	refimprove
2005 – Three explosions in Delhi, India, killed 62 people and injured at least 210 others.	unreferenced section
2015 – China announced the abolition of its one-child policy, allowing families to have two children instead.	trivial pop culture references
Dan Emmett |b|1815|	Birthday not cited
Harriet Powers |b|1837	lots of CN tags (10)
Narcisa de León |b|1877|	Birthday not cited, refs missing page numbers
Franz von Papen |b|1879|	Birthday not cited

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• 1792 – William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.
• 1831 – Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).

• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1868 – The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.
• 1956 – Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.
• 1960 – A [[Curtiss C-46 Commando|Template:Nowrap]] carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.
• 1966 – Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
• 1986 – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
• 1991 – Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
• 1998 – At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the [[STS-95|Template:Nowrap]] mission.
• 2012 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
• 2013 – The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.

• Born/died: | George Abbot |b|1562| Dirck Coornhert |d|1590| Edmund Calamy the Elder |d|1666| Joseph Goebbels |b|1897| Diana Serra Cary |b|1918| Edwin van der Sar |b|1970| Woody Herman |d|1987| Juha Vainio |d|1990| Lipman Bers |d|1993| Carlos Guastavino |d|2000| Jimmy Savile |d|2011|

October 29: Double Ninth Festival in China (2025); Republic Day in Turkey Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1883 – The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage (coin pictured) for the Hawaiian Kingdom.
• 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.
• 1955 – An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.
• 1999 – About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.
• 2007 – Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.