{"id":15919,"date":"2023-10-29T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=15919"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T12:23:57","slug":"history-of-29-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-29-october\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 29 October"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 29 October<\/h2>\n

1929<\/strong> – The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by\u00a0U.S.<\/a>\u00a0Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Finland prior to a Soviet attack.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – The monarchy was abolished in Yugoslavia and a republic proclaimed.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> – The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.<\/p>\n

1961<\/strong> – The\u00a0Mercury-Atlas 5<\/i>\u00a0spacecraft was launched by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> – A Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew members crashed in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport. All aboard were killed. The crash was the worst in Canada’s history.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Johnson\u00a0named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of\u00a0President Kennedy.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced that he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.<\/p>\n

1971<\/strong> – The Professional Golf Championship was held at Walt Disney World for the first time.
\nDisney movies, music, and books<\/p>\n

1974<\/strong> – In Britain, a bill that outlawed the Irish Republican Army became effective.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> – Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island,\u00a0CA<\/a>, at the age of 43.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – The U.N. General Assembly voted that the Soviet Union should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

1986-<\/strong> Actor Cary Grant died at the age of 82.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – Cuban detainees released 26 hostages they’d been holding for more than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale,\u00a0LA.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that the rights of criminal defendants are not violated when police unintentionally fail to preserve potentially vital evidence.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – In Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party’s 40-year monopoly on power.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – The U.N. Security Council voted to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – 17 people were killed in a 164-vehicle wreck during a dust storm near Coalinga,\u00a0CA, on Interstate 5.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – Dennis Byrd (New York Jets) was paralyzed after a neck injury in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and its airport only hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war.<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> – A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims. The sentence was the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected legalizing heroin and other narcotics.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> – The French government announced plans to build the Louvre II in northern France. The 236,808 square foot museum was the planned home for 500-600 works from the Louvre’s reserves.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> – Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong> – In China, construction on the Shanghai Tower began.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0China announces the end of the One-child policy\u00a0after 35 years.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lion Air Flight 610\u00a0of a\u00a0Boeing 737 MAX\u00a0crashes after taking off from\u00a0Jakarta,\u00a0Indonesia\u00a0killing 189 people on board.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amanda Beard, American swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Angelika Dela Cruz, Filipino actress, and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress, and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chelan Simmons, Canadian model, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maurice Clarett, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dana Eveland, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my Mathieu, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nurcan Taylan, Turkish weightlifter<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Baio, American bass player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Les Davies, Welsh footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lee Chung-ah, South Korean actress<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Janet Montgomery, English actress and dancer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jefferson Severino, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vijender Singh, Indian boxer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sarita P\u00e9rez de Tagle, Filipino actress<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nataly Dawn, American singer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andy Dalton, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jessica Dub\u00e9, Canadian figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tove Lo, Swedish singer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Florin Gardo\u0219, Romanian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sam Hutsby, English golfer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Janoris Jenkins, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Roman Van Uden, New Zealand cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Primoz Roglic, Slovenian ski jumper, and cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amarna Miller, former Spanish porn actress<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eric Saade, Swedish singer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Grant Hall, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Toby Tarrant, English radio broadcaster<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jacqueline Jossa, English actress<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00c1gnes Bukta, a Hungarian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0India Eisley, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lance Stroll, Canadian race car driver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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