October 29 in History

At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.

At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a double car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.

A Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.

China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.

A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.

Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing hundreds, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.

Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.

A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215.

ADC Airlines Flight 053 crashes after takeoff from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria killing 96 people and injuring nine.

Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people.

The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.

A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.

In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.

ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.

Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures over 200.

Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.

Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.

Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.

The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.

Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf and gang burgle the American Museum of Natural History stealing the Star of India and other gems.

An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.

Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.

Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sinks after probably striking a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, with a loss of more than 600 sailers.

BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.

World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.

World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and eventually contributing to the Great Depression.

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.

World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.

The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.

American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in one of the few night battles of the war, protecting the Union's recently opened supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.

Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.

The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).

Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.

Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.

Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

Vince Dunn, Canadian ice hockey player

Mikko Rantanen, Finnish ice hockey player

Astrid S, Norwegian singer and songwriter

Danielle Hunter, American football player

Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player

India Eisley, American actress

Evan Fournier, French basketball player

Colin Miller, Canadian ice hockey player

Parris Goebel, New Zealand dancer and choreographer

Nikita Zaitsev, Russian ice hockey player

Ender Inciarte, Venezuelan baseball player

Ben Proudfoot, Canadian filmmaker

Eric Saade, Swedish singer

Irina Karamanos, Chilean anthropologist and political scientist, First Lady of Chile

Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist

Janoris Jenkins, American football player

Andy Dalton, American football player

Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater

Tove Lo, Swedish singer

Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress

Italia Ricci, Canadian actress

Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer

Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

Vijender Singh, Indian boxer

Chris Baio, American bass player

Lee Chung-ah, South Korean actress

Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor

Maurice Clarett, American football player

Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer

Jérémy Mathieu, French footballer

Nurcan Taylan, Turkish weightlifter

Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer

Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syrian revolutionary and military leader, President of Syria

Amanda Beard, American swimmer

Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer

Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer

Ben Foster, American actor

Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player

Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician

Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer

Travis Henry, American football player

Kelly Smith, English footballer

Jon Abrahams, American actor

Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor

Stephen Craigan, Irish footballer and manager

Milena Govich, American actress, singer, and dancer

Raghava Lawrence, Indian actor, director, and choreographer

Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (died 2023)

Baba Ali, Iranian-American comedian, games developer, businessman, and actor

Joy Osmanski, American actress

R. A. Dickey, American baseball player

Michael Vaughan, English cricketer and sportscaster

Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician

Vonetta Flowers, American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper

Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player

Robert Pires, French footballer

Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress and producer

Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor

Gabrielle Union, American actress and producer

Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic

Greg Blewett, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster

Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer

Winona Ryder, American actress and producer

Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer and manager

Dan Ratushny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach and lawyer

Kaido Reivelt, Estonian physicist and academic

Toby Smith, English keyboardist and songwriter (died 2017)

Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster

David Farr, English director and playwright

Chris Verene, American photographer

Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater and physician

Beth Chapman, American reality television star (died 2019)

Thorsten Fink, German footballer and manager

Joely Fisher, American actress and director

Rufus Sewell, English actor

Mary Bucholtz, American linguist and academic

Tyler Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress

Andrew Ettingshausen, Australian rugby league player and television host

Michael Passons, American singer-songwriter

Yasmin Le Bon, English model

Eddie McGuire, Australian businessman and television host

Damian Chapa, American actor

Gerald Morris, American author

Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic singer, trumpet player, and politician

Randy Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer

Joel Otto, American ice hockey player and coach

Michael Carter, American football player and athlete

Fabiola Gianotti, Italian physicist and academic

Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer

Jesse Barfield, American baseball player and coach

Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Finola Hughes, English actress

John Magufuli, Tanzanian politician, 5th President of Tanzania (died 2021)

Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator

David Remnick, American journalist and author

Danny Vranes, American basketball player

Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer

Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican-American boxer

Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal singer-songwriter (died 2007)

Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Marcia Fudge, American lawyer and politician

Dirk Kempthorne, American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2026)

Tiff Needell, English race car driver and television host

Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey

Kieron Baker, English footballer

Raphael Carl Lee, American surgeon and academic

Paul Orndorff, American football player and wrestler (died 2021)

David Paton, Scottish guitarist

James Williamson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic (died 2024)

Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer

Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Communications

Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist

Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter

Ron Maag, American businessman and politician

Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress

Gerrit Ybema, Dutch civil servant and politician (died 2012)

Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman

Mehmet Haberal, Turkish surgeon and academic

Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2023)

Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician and songwriter

Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 1996)

Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter (died 2023)

Bob Ross, American painter and television host (died 1995)

George Davies, English fashion designer

Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician

Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician

Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)

Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited (died 2021)

Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate

Peter Stampfel, American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter

Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass singer and banjo player (died 2021)

David Allen, English cricketer (died 2014)

Eddie Hopkinson, English footballer (died 2004)

Michael Jayston, English actor (died 2024)

Isao Takahata, Japanese director (died 2018)

William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (died 2020)

Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician

Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (died 2006)

Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor and painter (died 2002)

Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer

Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (died 1992)

Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)

Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player

Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2011)

Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (died 2015)

Dominick Dunne, American journalist and author (died 2009)

Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)

Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (died 2012)

Klaus Roth, British mathematician (died 2015)

Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer (died 1985)

Bernard Middleton, British restoration bookbinder (died 2019)

Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (died 2015)

Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (died 2015)

Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (died 2008)

Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (died 2014)

Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (died 2013)

Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (died 2003)

Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Václav Neumann, Czech violinist and conductor (died 1995)

Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer (died 2007)

Diana Serra Cary, American actress and author (died 2020)

William Berenberg, American physician and academic (died 2005)

Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2012)

Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (died 2014)

A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author (died 1989)

Edwige Feuillère, French actress (died 1998)

Fredric Brown, American author (died 1972)

Henry Green, English author (died 1973)

Émilienne Morin, French activist (died 1991)

Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (died 1972)

Alan Barker, English soldier (died 1984)

Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)

Billy Walker, English footballer (died 1964)

Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (died 1951)

Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player (died 1966)

Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (died 1944)

John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower (died 1930)

Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (died 1960)

Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician (died 1941)

Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)

Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (died 1966)

Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (died 1973)

Marie of Romania (died 1938)

Antonio Luna, Filipino general and politician (died 1899)

Carl Gustav Witt, German astronomer (died 1946)

Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (died 1904)

Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (died 1939)

Paul-Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (died 1941)

Harriet Powers, American folk artist and quilter (died 1910)

Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (died 1869)

James Boucaut, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of South Australia (died 1916)

Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Russian-Polish cardinal (died 1902)

Dan Emmett, American composer (died 1904)

Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (died 1907)

Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (died 1873)

James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author (died 1795)

Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science (died 1778)

John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (died 1757)

Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1754)

Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian, explorer, and author (died 1761)

George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (died 1633)

Laura Guidiccioni, Italian noblewoman and poet (died 1597/9)

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (died 1582)

Shin Saimdang, South Korean painter and poet (died 1551)

Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (died 1549)

Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (died 1512)

Teri Garr, American actress and comedian (born 1944)

Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (born 1968)

Ashley Mallett, Australian cricketer (born 1945)

Angelika Amon, Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist (born 1967)

John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (born 1942)

Luther Burden, American basketball player and coach (born 1953)

Ernesto Herrera, Filipino businessman and politician (born 1942)

Boris Kristančič, Slovene basketball player and coach (born 1931)

Ranko Žeravica, Serbian basketball player and coach (born 1929)

Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (born 1965)

Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1968)

H. Gary Morse, American businessman (born 1936)

Jean Rénald Clérismé, Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Minister of Haiti (born 1937)

Sherman Halsey, American director and producer (born 1957)

John Spence, American soldier and engineer (born 1918)

Graham Stark, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Letitia Baldrige, American etiquette expert and author (born 1926)

J. Bernlef, Dutch author, poet, and songwriter (born 1937)

Kenneth G. Ryder, American academic (born 1924)

Wallace L. W. Sargent, English-American astronomer and academic (born 1935)

Jack Vaughn, American boxer and diplomat (born 1920)

Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (born 1926)

Mike Baker, American singer-songwriter (born 1963)

Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (born 1924)

Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (born 1903)

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born 1901)

Admire Vega, Japanese thoroughbred horse (born 1966)

Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (born 1946)

Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (born 1923)

Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (born 1916)

Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and educator (born 1922)

Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (born 1921)

Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (born 1960)

Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (born 1912)

Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1931)

Paul Misraki, Turkish-French pianist and composer (born 1908)

Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)

Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1947)

Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (born 1908)

Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter (born 1924)

Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (born 1918)

Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (born 1914)

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (born 1903)

Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (born 1913)

Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (born 1913)

Evgeny Lifshitz, Soviet physicist (born 1915)

Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921)

Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1911)

Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (born 1926)

Edmund Hirst, British chemist (born 1898)

Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)

Adolphe Menjou, American actor (born 1890)

Astrid Holm, Danish actress (born 1893)

Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1886)

Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (born 1885)

Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1905)

William Kapell, American pianist (born 1922)

Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (born 1864)

Gustaf V of Sweden (born 1858)

George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1872)

Thomas Slater Price, British chemist (born 1875)

Edward S. Anthoine, American politician and lawyer (born 1882)

Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (born 1897)

Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (born 1864)

Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (born 1874)

Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1863)

George Luks, American painter and illustrator (born 1867)

Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (born 1853)

Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (born 1857)

Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (born 1849)

Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (born 1843)

Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (born 1873)

John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (born 1851)

Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (born 1847)

Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (born 1873)

Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (born 1873)

Fatima Cates, British Muslim convert and activist (born 1865)

Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (born 1839)

William Harnett, American painter (born 1848)

Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (born 1821)

Andrea Debono, Maltese trader and explorer (born 1821)

Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (born 1751)

Sarah Crosby, English Methodist preacher (born 1729)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)

Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister and activist (born 1600)

James Shirley, English dramatist (born 1596)

David Calderwood, Scottish historian and theologian (born 1575)

Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1554)

Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (born 1522)

Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1301)

Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (born 1253)

Conradin, King of Sicily (born 1252)

Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (born 1249)

Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (born 1204)

Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury