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1831 Bristol riots
Mount Hood
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ticker-tape parade
Suez Crisis
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Flag of Turkey
Sir Walter Raleigh
Asteroid 951 Gaspra
Log of the first message sent on the ARPANET
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Marmaray train
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| Blurb | Reason |
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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 I 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 |
| 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.
- 1956 – Following the nationalisation of the Egypt's Suez Canal, Israel, France, and the United Kingdom invaded the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1960 – A C-46 airliner 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 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| Émilienne Morin |b|1901| 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: Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
Kalākaua dime
- 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.
- Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (d. 1924)
- Phan Bội Châu (d. 1940)
- Primož Roglič (b. 1989)
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