What happened on October 29 in other years, from the events Wikipedia's editors chose for its "On this day":
- 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. → William Robert Broughton
- 1868: The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War. → Nanbu clan
- 1956: Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work. → Kafr Qasim massacre
- 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. → Chia Thye Poh
- 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. → 1999 Odisha cyclone
- 2013: The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait. → Marmaray
Born on October 29
- 1897: Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
- 1938: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1950: Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey
- 1971: Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
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