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🎂 Famous Historical Birthdays - October 29, 2026

1969 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"

1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth

1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16

1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea

1982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Girl is Mine"

1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union

1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented

1949 White Sox trade Joe Tipton to A's for Nellie Fox

1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured

1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted

1945 Happy Chandler, resigns as US Senator, remains as baseball commish

1894 1st election of Hawaiian Republic

1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded

1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1967 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions

1979 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open

1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics

1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title

1958 Dr F Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram

1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1915 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France

1977 Texas' Russell Erideben kicks his 3rd 60 yard field goal of the season

1950 Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns

1727 Severe earthquake in New England

1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution

1965 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians

1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up

1931 Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP

1986 West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)

1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway

1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, GA (NBC) 1st broadcast

1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3

1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

1956 International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco

1950 Cleveland Browns' Marion Motley sets record for highest avg gain in a game with 17.1 (10 attempts), Cleveland 45, Pittsburgh 7

1941 Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC

1872 J S Risdon patents metal windmill

1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history

1914 Russia declares war on Turkey

1967 MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair," premieres in NYC

1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim

1942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers

1787 Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

1969 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award

1995 "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC

1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia

1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company

1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1983 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile

1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria

1953 A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns

1932 French liner Normandie is launched

1955 Emile Zatopek runs world record 15 mile (1:14:01) & 25,000m (1:16:36)

1985 Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump

1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published

1923 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)

1969 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1930 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach

1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

1987 "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 perfs

1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns

1794 French troops occupies Venlo

1867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands

1960 Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6

1983 Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns

1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)

1995 Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25

1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

1947 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union

1923 Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins

1923 Army move SPD/KPD-govt to German part of Saxon

1966 National Organization of Women founded

1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership

1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre

1889 NY Giants (NL) beat Bkln (AA) in world series 6 games to 3

1972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal

1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia

1977 "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances

1986 Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs

1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced

1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)

1995 US beats Japan, 19-17, at Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament

1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions

1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Phila Phillies

1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager

1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC

1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

1863 Intl Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

1964 United Rep of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania

1814 "Demologos," 1st steam-powered warship, is launched

1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open

1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

1923 Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild," premieres in NYC

1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)

1904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)

1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi

1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open

1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault

1994 Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed

1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees

1964 Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan

1989 NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway

1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International

1942 Alaska highway completed

1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7шN 162шE

1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee

1709 England/Netherlands sign anti-French "BarriЉretraktaat"

1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive

1960 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight

1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle

1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam

1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

0439 Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago

1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev

1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens

1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application

1975 Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year

1964 Karmi'el founded in Galilee

1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)

1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election

1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86

1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater

1957 Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)

1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX

1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3

1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania

1984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon

1954 Sweden begins experimental TV

1944 Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland

1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game

1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)

1986 Kirk Muller scores NJ Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6

1994 NY Lotto pays $60 million+

1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"

1944 Breda freed

1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY

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