Events on October 29 64
Year 312
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.
Year 437
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.
Year 1268
Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
Year 1618
English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
Year 1658
Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
Year 1665
Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
Year 1675
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
Year 1792
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.
Year 1863
Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
Year 1863
American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Year 1888
The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
Year 1901
In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
Year 1901
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Year 1918
The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918-19.
Year 1921
The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
Year 1929
The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
Year 1941
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".
Year 1942
The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
Year 1948
Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; after, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
Year 1955
The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
Year 1956
Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
Year 1957
Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
Year 1960
In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
Year 1960
An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
Year 1964
The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
Year 1964
A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Year 1969
The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
Year 1972
The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
Year 1980
Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
Year 1985
Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
Year 1986
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
Year 1991
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
Year 1994
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
Year 1998
In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
Year 1998
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.
Year 1998
ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
Year 1998
While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
Year 1998
Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
Year 2002
Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
Year 2004
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.
Year 2008
Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
Year 2012
Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
Year ?
Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire) entered the capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land.