Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - October 29, 2026

1944 Breda freed

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

1995 "Fool Moon" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC

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

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

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

1942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers

1591 Giovanni A Facchinetti elected as Pope Innocentius IX

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

1709 England/Netherlands sign anti-French "BarriЉretraktaat"

1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

1964 Karmi'el founded in Galilee

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

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

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

1942 Alaska highway completed

1915 Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia

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

1954 Sweden begins experimental TV

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

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

1727 Severe earthquake in New England

1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee

1923 Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)

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

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

1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for BSA Company

1964 Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings v Pakistan

1914 Russia declares war on Turkey

1979 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open

1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle

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

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

1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia

1967 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions

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

1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured

1956 International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco

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

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

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

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

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

1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)

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

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

1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open

1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

0439 Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago

1960 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight

1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Phila Phillies

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

1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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

1924 Labour loses British parliamentary election

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

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

1966 National Organization of Women founded

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

1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

1947 Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam

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

1950 British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns

1894 1st election of Hawaiian Republic

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

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

1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open

1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1932 French liner Normandie is launched

1994 NY Lotto pays $60 million+

1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim

1947 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherland form Benelux Union

1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title

1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of NY Yankees

1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev

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

1969 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre

1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea

1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published

1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)

1944 Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland

1787 Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

1915 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France

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

1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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

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

1953 A Baltimore group purchases St Louis Browns

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

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

1969 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award

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

1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania

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

1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY

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

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

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

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

1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86

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

1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions

1872 J S Risdon patents metal windmill

1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC

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

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

1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3

1965 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians

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

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

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

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

1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)

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

1794 French troops occupies Venlo

1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International

1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria

1950 Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns

1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth

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

1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater

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

1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive

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

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

1989 NYC MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway

1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership

1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution

1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as NY Yankee manager

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

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

1983 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile

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