29th of October

See also: Category: Holidays October 29

International

• World Stroke Day ^[2] .

National

•   Russia - Day of private security .
•   Turkey - Republic Day ^[3] .

  Religious

  Catholicism

• commemorate Ahahilda, sister of St. Coonigunds;
• memory of the martyr Ferruzius ( 4th century ).

  Orthodoxy ^{[4] [5]}

• memory of the martyr Longin, like at the Cross of the Lord ( I century );
• the memory of Longinus, the goalkeeper of the Caves , in the Far Caves ( XIII - XIV centuries );
• memory of Rev. Longin of Yarengsky (16th century);
• memory of St. George Trinity , confessor, presbyter ( 1931 );
• memory of the holy martyr Eugene Elkhovsky , presbyter ( 1937 );
• memory of the holy martyr Alexy Nikonov , presbyter ( 1938 );
• memory of the holy martyr John of Zasedatelev , presbyter ( 1942 );
• memory of the Monk Gall (650) ^[6] .

Name Day

• Orthodox: Viola, Dementium, Domnin, Eupraxia, Euphrosyne, Leontius, Longinus, Mal, Terenty ^[7] .

See also: Category: October 29 events

Until the 19th century

• 1607 - Arman Jean du Plessis de Richelieu defended his dissertation at the Sorbonne for a doctorate in theology.
• 1697 - departure from Poland of Prince Conti.
• 1762 - battle at Freiberg .

XIX century

• 1812 - in Paris, on the Grenelle field, thirteen members of the Malet conspiracy against Napoleon were shot.
• 1837 — The Monmouth steamer sank on the Mississippi River as a result of a collision with another ship. Killed more than 300 Indians aboard the ship ^{[8] [9]} .
• 1863 - The International Red Cross was founded at an international conference in Geneva ( Switzerland ).
• 1888 - railway accident in the Russian Empire - the collapse of the imperial train .

XX century

• 1905 - The Circum-Baikal Railway was adopted for continuous operation.
• 1918 - The Russian Communist Youth Union (RKSM; later Komsomol) was created.
• 1922 - as a result of a march to Rome by Italian fascists, the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini to the post of Prime Minister.
• 1923 - The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed, and Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) became its first president.
• 1929 - Wall Street Market Crash Day , known as Black Tuesday.
• 1945 - Ballpoint pens first went on sale in New York (57 years after patent).
• 1947 - Dry ice was first used to cause rain.
• 1955 - the death of the battleship Novorossiysk in the Sevastopol Bay, killing 614 people.
• 1956 - Operation Kadesh : to ensure free shipping, Israel , with the support of France and Great Britain , invaded the Sinai Peninsula .
• 1969 - the first data transfer between two computers on a network as part of the ARPANET project - the birth of the Internet .
• 1971 - the beginning of physiotherapy : a weak electric current helps restore broken bones .
• 1976 - the Soviet missile attack warning system began on alert.
• 1989 - The Supreme Council of the RSFSR adopted amendments to the Constitution of the RSFSR , which established the Congress of People's Deputies .
• 1998 - the oldest astronaut , John Glenn (aged 77 years and 103 days) was launched into space in the United States .

21st Century

• 2004 - the film “ Saw: A Game for Survival ” was released in wide distribution.
• 2008 - a powerful earthquake occurred in Pakistan .
• 2011 - the Lviv Arena stadium was opened in Lviv (Ukraine) to host matches of the European Football Championship Euro 2012 .
• 2012 - after more than 20 years of existence , If is closed, one of the first Russian science fiction magazines.
• 2012 - Microsoft introduced the Windows Phone 8 mobile OS .

See also: Category: Born October 29

Until the 19th century

• 1463 - Alessandro Akillini (d. 1512 ), Italian anatomist and philosopher, nicknamed the "second Aristotle."
• 1507 - Grand Duke of Alba (d. 1582 ), Spanish statesman and military leader of the era of the Counter-Reformation .
• 1562 - George Abbott (d. 1633 ), English prelate in the reign of the Stuarts , Archbishop of Canterbury .
• 1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich (d. 1591 ), prince, prince of Uglitsky , the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible (canonized in 1606 as the noble prince Dimitri Uglitsky ).

XIX century

• 1815 - Ludovit Stur (d. 1856 ), Slovak writer, author of the standards of the modern Slovak language.
• 1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin (d. 1904 ), Russian painter.
• 1866 - Georg Engel (d. 1931 ), German writer, playwright, screenwriter and literary critic.
• 1873 - Yakov Usachev (d. 1941 ), Russian Soviet physicist, founder of the science of metal cutting.
• 1879 - Franz von Papen (d. 1969 ), German statesman and diplomat.
• 1880 - Abram Ioffe (d. In 1960 ), Soviet physicist, pioneer in the study of semiconductors.
• 1882 - Jean Giraud (d. 1944 ), French novelist, essayist, playwright and diplomat.
• 1888 - Li Dazhao (d. 1927 ), Chinese Marxist , one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party .
• 1897 - Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945 ), German statesman and politician, Nazi criminal.
• 1899 - Akim Tamirov (d. 1972 ), American actor of Armenian descent, winner of the Golden Globe .
• 1900 - Alexander Reformed (d. 1978 ), Russian Soviet linguist.

XX century

• 1904 - Alexander Morozov (d. 1979 ), Soviet design engineer, one of the creators of the T-34 tank.
• 1917 - Eddie Constantine (real name Edward Konstantinovsky ; d. 1993 ), French singer and film actor.
• 1918 - Mikhail Lukonin (d. 1976 ), Russian Soviet poet, journalist, war correspondent.
• 1920 - Baruch Benaserraf (d. 2011 ), American immunologist, Nobel laureate (1980).
• 1922 - Alexander Zinoviev (d. 2006 ), Soviet and Russian logician, social philosopher , satirist.
• 1925
  • Georgy Schukin (d. 1983 ), Soviet film director, screenwriter, animation artist.
  • Klaus Friedrich Roth (d. 2015 ), British mathematician, Fields Prize laureate (1958).
• 1929
  • Evgeny Primakov (d. 2015 ), Soviet and Russian statesman, economist and historian, Prime Minister of Russia (1998-1999).
  • Yasen Zasursky , Soviet and Russian literary critic, president of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University .
• 1930 - Nicky de Saint-Fall (d. 2002 ), French theater artist, sculptor and filmmaker.
• 1941 - Mikhail Lavrovsky , Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1944
  • Robbie van Leeuwen , Dutch guitarist, sitarist , songwriter, founder of Shocking Blue .
  • Danny Lane , British multi-instrumentalist, songwriter.
• 1946 - Peter Green , British guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac .
• 1947 - Richard Dreyfus , American actor, winner of the Oscar .
• 1948 - Elena Drapeko , Soviet and Russian film actress, politician, State Duma deputy.
• 1954 - Ruslan Aushev , Russian politician and public figure, the first president of the Republic of Ingushetia.
• 1958 - David Remnick , American journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of New Yorker magazine.
• 1960 - Renat Layshev , Honored Trainer of Russia, Head of the Sambo-70 Sports and Education Center.
• 1961
  • Alexey Gorbunov , Soviet and Ukrainian actor.
  • Denis Evstigneev , Russian cameraman, film director, producer, laureate of the USSR State Prize.
• 1963 - Elvira Nabiullina , Russian statesman and politician, chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (since 2013).
• 1971 - Winona Ryder , American film actress, winner of the Golden Globe Award.

See also: Category: October 29 dead

Until the 19th century

• 1606 - Istvan Bochkai (b. 1557 ), prince of Transylvania (1605-1606).
• 1714 - Prince Boris Alekseevich Golitsyn (b. 1654 ), Russian statesman, educator and associate of Peter I.
• 1783 - Jean Leron D'Alembert (b. 1717 ), French philosopher, mechanic and mathematician.

XIX century

• 1804
  • Mikhail Soimonov (b. 1730 ), one of the organizers of mining and higher education in Russia, a senator.
  • George Morland (b. 1763 ), English landscape painter and animal painter.
• 1812 - shot:
  • Claude-Francois Male (b. 1754 ), French general, leader of the conspiracy against Napoleon I ;
  • Maximin-Joseph Emmanuel Gidal (b. 1764 ), French general of the Napoleonic Wars , participant in the Male plot .
• 1821 - Mikhail Milonov (b. 1792 ), Russian poet.
• 1829 - Maria Anna Mozart (b. 1751 ), Austrian pianist, teacher, older sister of V.A. Mozart .
• 1877 - Nathaniel Bedford Forrest (b. 1821 ), general of the Army of the Confederate States of America , member of the Ku Klux Klan .
• 1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky (b. 1828 ), Russian utopian philosopher, literary critic, publicist and writer.

XX century

• 1900 - Frederick Louis Godet (b. 1812 ), Swiss Evangelical theologian.
• 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer (b. 1847 ), American journalist, publisher, founder of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
• 1927 - Leonard Nelson (b. 1882 ), German idealist philosopher, psychologist.
• 1932 - Nikolai Agnivtsev (b. 1888 ), Russian Soviet poet, playwright, children's writer.
• 1932 - Joseph Babinsky (b. 1857 ), French neuropathologist, academician.
• 1941 - Alexander Afinogenov (b. 1904 ), Soviet playwright, author of plays of socio-philosophical and moral content.
• 1945 - Boris Keller (b. 1874 ), Russian and Soviet biologist, geobotanist, soil scientist, ecologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the All-Union Agricultural Academy .
• 1949 - George Gurdjieff (b. 1877 ), Caucasian philosopher-mystic.
• 1950 - Gustav V (b. 1858 ), king of Sweden (1907-1950).
• 1957 - Louis Meyer (b. 1884 ), American film producer, director and co-founder of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio.
• 1958 - Vasily Nebolsin (b. 1898 ), conductor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1963 - Adolph Menju (b. 1890 ), American actor, Academy Award nominee .
• 1965 - Nikolai Gudziy (b. 1887 ), literary critic, academician, researcher of Old Russian, Russian and Ukrainian literature.
• 1967 - Leonid Voinov (b. 1898 ), musician, composer and conductor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1971 - Arne Tiselius (b. 1902 ), Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (1948).
• 1976 - Konstantin Vasiliev (b. 1942 ), Soviet artist.
• 1981
  • Georges Brassens (b. 1921 ), French poet, composer, songwriter.
  • Dmitry Chechulin (b. 1901 ), Soviet architect, chief architect of Moscow in 1945-1949.
• 1985 - Evgeny Lifshits (b. 1915 ), Soviet theoretical physicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
• 1987 - Woody Herman (b. 1913 ), American jazz musician, composer and singer.
• 1989 - Julia Solntseva (b. 1901 ), actress and film director, People's Artist of the USSR, wife of the director A.P. Dovzhenko .
• 1990 - Sergei Plotnikov (b. 1909 ), actor and director of theater and cinema, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1996 - Eugen Kapp (b. 1908 ), Estonian Soviet composer, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1997 - Anton Sandor LaVey (b. 1930 ), American, founder of the Church of Satan .

21st Century

• 2001 - Grigory Chukhrai (b. 1921 ), film director and screenwriter, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 2003 - Franco Corelli (b. 1921 ), Italian opera singer (tenor).
• 2004 - Ezra Stoller (b. 1915 ), American architectural photographer.
• 2005 - Sergey Savelyev (b. 1948 ), Soviet skier, Olympic champion (1976), world champion.
• 2007 - Kirill Chistov (b. 1919 ), Soviet and Russian folklorist, ethnographer.
• 2010 - Evgeny Golovin (b. 1938 ), Russian mystic writer, poet, translator, literary critic.
• 2011 - Robert Lamouraud (b. 1920 ), French actor, director, pop singer and screenwriter.

• Longin Sotnik is a healer of eye diseases .
• In the old days on this day winter clothes were carried out in the morning frost; it was believed that sunlight, although short-lived, was healing, kind and expensive ^[10] .