📜 This Day in History

October 29

• 1792William 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.
• 1868The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.
• 1956Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.
• 1966Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
• 1999About 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.
• 2013The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.

Born on this day

• 1897Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
• 1938Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey
• 1971Winona Ryder, American actress and producer