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October 29

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Suez Crisis

69 years ago

Born this day

1897

Joseph Goebbels

Would be 128

Oldest record

697th

Hongwu Emperor

birth anniversary

Famous births27

1328 · 697 yrs

Hongwu Emperor

The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398.

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RoyaltyWould be 697

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1711 · 314 yrs

Laura Bassi

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (29 October 1711 – 20 February 1778) was an Italian physicist and academic. Recognized and depicted as "Minerva" (goddess of wisdom), she was the first woman to have a doctorate in science, and the second woman in the world to earn the Doctor of Philosophy degree.

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ScienceWould be 314

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1762 · 263 yrs

André Chénier

André Marie Chénier (French pronunciation:; 30 October 1762 – 25 July 1794) was a French poet associated with the events of the French Revolution, during which he was sentenced to death. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement.

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LiteratureWould be 263

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1879 · 146 yrs

Franz von Papen

Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen, Erbsälzer zu Werl und Neuwerk (German:; 29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German politician, diplomat, army officer, and Prussian nobleman.

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PoliticsWould be 146

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1882 · 143 yrs

Jean Giraudoux

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (French:; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy.

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LiteratureWould be 143

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1888 · 137 yrs

Andrei Tupolev

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Туполев; 10 November 1888 – 23 December 1972) was a Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as the director of the Tupolev Design Bureau.

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TechnologyWould be 137

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1897 · 128 yrs

Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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PoliticsWould be 128

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1910 · 115 yrs

A. J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer ( AIR; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989) was an English philosopher who became professionally established through his exposition of major theses of logical positivism in Language, Truth, and Logic (1936).

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PhilosophyWould be 115

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1920 · 105 yrs

Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and…

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ScienceWould be 105

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1926 · 99 yrs

Necmettin Erbakan

Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997.

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PoliticsWould be 99

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1929 · 96 yrs

Evgeny Primakov

Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (Russian pronunciation:; 29 October 1929 – 26 June 2015) was a Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999.

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PoliticsWould be 96

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1935 · 90 yrs

Isao Takahata

Isao Takahata (高畑勲, Takahata Isao; October 29, 1935 – April 5, 2018) was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.

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FilmWould be 90

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Famous deaths10

1783 · 242 yrs

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert ( DAL-əm-BAIR; French:; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.

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ScienceWould be 308

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1897 · 128 yrs

Henry George

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, social philosopher and journalist. His writing was popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era.

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ScienceWould be 187

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1911 · 114 yrs

Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer ( PULL-it-sər; born Pulitzer József, Hungarian:; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.

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PoliticsWould be 179

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1947 · 78 yrs

Frances Cleveland

Frances Clara Cleveland Preston (née Folsom, christened Frank Clara; July 21, 1864 – October 29, 1947) was the first lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 until 1897, as the wife of President Grover Cleveland. She was the first to hold the position nonconsecutively.

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Notable PeopleWould be 162

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1949 · 76 yrs

George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1866–1877 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.

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PhilosophyWould be 160

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1950 · 75 yrs

Gustaf V of Sweden

Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf; 16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until his death in 1950. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

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RoyaltyWould be 168

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1971 · 54 yrs

Arne Tiselius

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (10 August 1902 – 29 October 1971) was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins."

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ScienceWould be 124

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1981 · 44 yrs

Georges Brassens

Georges Charles Brassens (French:; Occitan:) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. George Brassens is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets.

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MusicWould be 105

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1997 · 28 yrs

Anton LaVey

Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American writer, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, and the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism.

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LiteratureWould be 96

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2021 · 4 yrs

Puneeth Rajkumar

Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar (17 March 1975 – October 29, 2021), affectionately known as Appu, was an Indian actor, playback singer, film producer, television presenter and philanthropist who worked in Kannada cinema.

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FilmWould be 52

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Events5

1914 · 111 yrs

Middle Eastern theater of World War I

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 30 October 1914 and 30 October 1918.

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War

1956 · 69 yrs

Suez Crisis

The Suez Crisis, also known as the second Arab–Israeli war, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.

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War

2004 · 21 yrs

Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE; commonly referred to as the European Constitution or as the Constitutional Treaty) was an unratified international treaty intended to create a consolidated constitution for the European Union (EU).

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Politics

2022 · 3 yrs

Itaewon Halloween crowd crush

On 29 October 2022, at approximately 22:20, a crowd surge occurred during Halloween festivities in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea, resulting in 159 deaths and 196 injuries. The total number of fatalities includes two individuals who died following the incident.

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History

2024 · 1 yrs

2024 Spain floods

On 29 October 2024, torrential rain caused by an isolated low-pressure area at high levels brought over a year's worth of precipitation to several areas in eastern Spain, including the Valencian Community, Castilla–La Mancha, and Andalusia.

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