Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 29
October 29, 2024 is the 303rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 63 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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
- 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.
- 969 –Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria.
- 1422 –Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France.
- 1467 –Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.
- 1665 –Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
- 1863 –Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
- 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.
- 1956 –Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
- 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.
- 1998 –While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 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.
Who were born on October 29?
- 1866 –Antonio Luna, Filipino revolutionary general (d. 1899)
- 1880 –Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
- 1930 –Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1944 –Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman and sports executive (Montreal Expos)
- 1947 –Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
- 1951 –Tiff Needell, British racing driver and television presenter
- 1953 –Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 –Finola Hughes, British actress
- 1981 –Jonathan Brown, Australian Australian rules footballer
- 1983 –Maurice Clarett, American football player
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