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Day Of The Week: October 29
October 29, 2025 is the 302nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 29
- 539 BC –Cyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity. He gives the Jews permission to return to Yehud province and to rebuild the Temple; but most Jews choose to remain in Babylon.
- 312 –Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at 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.
- 1422 –Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France.
- 1675 –Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
- 1901 –In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
- 1960 –In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- 1964 –The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
Who were born on October 29?
- 1017 –Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- 1899 –Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972)
- 1923 –Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
- 1930 –Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
- 1950 –Bronwen Mantel, Canadian actress and voice actor
- 1969 –Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
- 1972 –Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
- 1973 –Robert Pirès, French footballer
- 1981 –Reema Sen, Indian actress
- 1985 –Jefferson Severino, Brazilian footballer
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