29 October

The **29t o October** is the 302t day o the year (303t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 63 days bidin.

## Events

*1422 &ndash; Charles VII o Fraunce becomes king in succession tae his faither Charles VI o Fraunce though he is nae offeecially crouned king til 1429.
*1618 &ndash; Inglis splorer an statesman Walter Raleigh is executit.
*1863 &ndash; In Geneva, 18 kintras agree tae form the Internaitional Reid Cross.
*1894 &ndash; New Zealand passenger steamer "Wairarapa" hits a reef aff Eastren Australie an sinks, killin 121 fowk.
*1900 &ndash; A New York Ceety factory splosion kills awmaist 200 fowk.
*1901 &ndash; Leon Czolgosz is executit for the assassination o US Preses William McKinley.
*1923 &ndash; Turkey becomes a republic followin the dissolution o the Ottoman Empire.
*1929 &ndash; Collapse o the Wall Street stock mercat in New York Ceety, stairtin the Depression o the 1930s. 
*1942 &ndash; Warld War II: Breetish passenger ship "MV Abosso" is sunk bi a German U-boat in the North Atlantic Ocean, killin 362 fowk.
*1955 &ndash; Soviet battleship "Novorossiysk" is sunk bi a splosion in Sevastopol, killin 608 afficers.
*1956 &ndash; Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula an push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
*1964 &ndash; Tanzanie gets its present-day name, wi Julius Nyerere as Preses.
*1969 &ndash; The first-ever computer-tae-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor tae the Internet.
*1973 &ndash; The Bosphorus Brig opens, linkin the European an Asie sides o the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.
*1998 &ndash; Hurricane Mitch maks landfaw in Honduras, an also devastates Nicaragua.
*1998 &ndash; John Glenn becomes the auldest person in space.
*1998 &ndash; A nichtclub fire in Gothenburg, Swaden, kills 63 fowk.
*1999 &ndash; A major tropical cyclone hits Eastren Indie, killin an estimatit 10,000 fowk.
*2002 &ndash; A fire in a supermercat in Ho Chi Minh Ceety kills at least 60 fowk an leaves ower 100 missin.
*2003 &ndash; Iain Duncan Smith demits as leader o the Breetish Conservative Pairty.
*2005 &ndash; Bomb attacks in Delhi, Indie, kill 67 fowk.
*2012 &ndash; Hurricane Sandy kills ower 30 fowk in the Eastren Unitit States, efter killin ower 60 fowk in the Caribbean.
*2015 &ndash; The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae abandons its ane-bairn policy.
*2018 &ndash; Lion Air Flicht 610 crashes intae the Java Sea shortly efter tak-aff frae Jakarta, killin aw 189 fowk on baird.
*2018 &ndash; Angela Merkel propales her intention tae demit as Chancellor o Germany in 2021.
*2019 &ndash; The Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick votes for a general election on 12 December; this will be the first Unitit Kinrick general election tae be held in December syne 1923.

## Births

* 1740 - James Boswell, Scots lawyer, writer an biographer (d. 1795)
* 1781 - Thomas Stewart Traill, Scots medicinar, chemist, meteorologist an zoologist (d. 1862)
* 1852 - Douglas Cochrane, 12t Yerl o Dundonal, Scots peer an general (d. 1935)
* 1855 - Moses McNeil, Scots fitbawer an foondin member o Rangers F.C. (d. 1938)
* 1875 - Marie o Romanie (d. 1938)
* 1879 - Franz von Papen, Chancellor o Germany (d. 1969)
* 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda meenister (d. 1945)
* 1908 - Jimmy Simpson, Scots fitbawer (d. 1972)
* 1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrick-American chemist, novelist an playwricht (d. 2015)
* 1929 - Yevgeny Primakov, Prime meenister o Roushie (d. 2015)
* 1933 - Alex Wilson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
* 1935 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter an producer (d. 2018)
* 1938 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, umwhile Preses o Liberie
* 1942 - Bob Ross, American penter an telly presenter (d. 1995)
* 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
* 1950 - Abdullah Gül, 11t Preses o Turkey
* 1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American actor, comedian an screenwriter (Homer Simpson)
* 1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
* 1966 - Ian Durrant, Scots fitbawer
* 1970 - Edwin van der Sar, Dutch fitbawer
* 1970 - Phillip Cocu, Dutch fitbawer
* 1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
* 1973 - Robert Pires, French fitbawer
* 1985 - Joe Ansbro, Scots rugby union player
* 1990 - Amarna Miller, umwhile Spaingie porn actress, vlogger an YouTuber

## Daiths
* 1618 - Walter Raleigh, Inglis seafarer an writer
* 1650 - David Calderwood, Scots divine an historian (b. 1575)
* 1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French scientist (b. 1717)
* 1802 - Prince Giuseppe o Savoy, Coont o Asti (b. 1766)
* 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, assassin o William McKinley (b. 1873)
* 1950 - Gustaf V o Swaden (b. 1858)
* 1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swadish chemist (b. 1902)
* 2006 - Doug Winton, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
* 2011 - Jimmy Savile, Inglis enterteener an sexual abuser (b. 1926)

## Halidays

* Republic Day (Turkey), foondin o the Republic bi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1923
* Coronation Day (Cambodie)
* Cyrus the Great Day (Iran)
* Warld Stroke Day
* Naitional Cat Day (Unitit States)

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