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OCTOBER 29, 1831
Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).
The 1831 Bristol riots took place on 29–31 October 1831 and were part of the 1831 reform riots in England. The riots Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1991
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1792
William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.
William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1955
An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive weapon placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Similar to anti-personnel Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1883
The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage for the Kingdom of Hawaii.
The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint. Opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1948
Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1868
The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.
The Nanbu clan was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled most of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan for Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1998
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1960
A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.
The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1956
Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.
The Israel Border Police is the gendarmerie and border security branch of the Israel National Police. It is also commonly known by Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1999
About 10,000 people died when a tropical cyclone made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar.
The 1999 Odisha cyclone was the most intense recorded tropical cyclone in the North Indian Ocean and among the most destructive in Read More
OCTOBER 29, 2012
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
Hurricane Sandy was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United Read More
OCTOBER 29, 2013
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
Marmaray is a 76.6-kilometre-long (47.6 mi) commuter rail line located in Istanbul, Turkey. The line runs from Halkalı, on the European side, to Read More
OCTOBER 29, 1986
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 Read More

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