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1787 : First performance of Don Giovanni On October 29, 1787, Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was played for the first time in the Prague Italian opera, Teatro di Praga (now the Estates Theatre).
1929 : Black Tuesday hits Wall Street On October 29, 1929, after several days of panic, the crash of this Black Tuesday was even more important, the actions slumped into their lowest value and the market collapsed completely. After that day, the shares could only go up but the economy collpased and between 1929 and 1933, half of the banks failed.
1956 : Israel invaded Egypt On October 29, 1956, Israel, joined by the United Kingdom and France, invaded Egypt. The Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser had decided the nationalization of the Suez Canal in July 1956 in order to finance the Aswan Dam. The Soviet Union threatened to come to Egypt to support Nasser. Eisenhower asked the Russians not to intervene and put pressure on the three aggressor countries to withdraw their troops, which is what they did in late 1956, early 1957.
1960 : Cassius Clay beats the police chief of Fayetteville On October 29, 1960, in Louisville, Kentucky, boxer Cassius Clay, later to become Muhammad Ali, won his first fight as a professional against Tunney Hunsaker, police chief of Fayetteville, West Virginia.
1999 : Orissa cyclone hit India and Myanmar On 29 October 1999, the Orissa cyclone struck India and Myanmar with winds over 250k /h. 15,000 people were killed.

Republic Day in Turkey October 29 is the Republic Day in Turkey or Cumhuriyet Bayramı. We celebrate the Republic which was created in 1923 at the end of the Ottoman Empire. This is a legal holiday and fireworks are fired throughout the country.
World Psoriasis Day October 29 is World Psoriasis Day. On this day, patients' associations try to raise awareness of this skin disease that affects 125 million people worldwide.

Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Antonio Luna, General revolutionary filipino (1866)
Abram Ioffe, Físico ruso (1880)
Jean Giraudoux, Escritor francés (1882)
Joseph Goebbels, Ministro de Propaganda de la Alemania nazi (1897)
Akim Tamiroff, Actor ruso (1899)
Edwige Feuillère, Actriz francesa (1907)
Eddie Constantine, Cantante y actor francés (1917)
Baruj Benacerraf, Inmunólogo estadounidense nacido en Venezuela, Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina (1920)
Yevgeny Primakov, Político ruso (1929)
Niki de Saint Phalle, Pintora y escultora francesa (1930)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Presidente de Liberia (1938)
Don Simpson, Productor americano (1943)
Peter Green, Músico inglés (Fleetwood Mac) (1946)
Richard Dreyfuss, Actor americano (1947)
Coline Serreau, Directora de cine francesa (1947)
Kate Jackson, Actriz americana (1948)
Abdullah Gül, 11o Presidente de la República de Turquía (1950)
Roger O'Donnell, Músico inglés (The Cure) (1955)
Christophe Alévêque, Humorista francés (1963)
Rufus Sewell, Actor inglés (1967)
Winona Ryder, Actriz americana (1971)
Gabrielle Union, Actriz americana (1972)
Robert Pirès, Futbolista francés (1973)
Brendan Fehr, Actor canadiense (1977)
Andrew-Lee Potts, Actor inglés (1979)
Ben Foster , Actor americano (1980)
Amanda Beard, Nadadora estadounidense (1981)
Reemma Sen, Actriz india (1981)
Jessica Dubé, Patinadora artística canadiense (1987)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Matemático francés (1783)
Maria Anna Mozart, Música austriaca (1829)
Joseph Pulitzer, Editor de periódico estadounidense (1911)
Albert Calmette, Médico francés (1933)
Adolphe Menjou, Actor americano (1963)
Arne Tiselius, Bioquímico sueco, Premio Nobel de Química (1971)
Georges Brassens, Cantante francés (1981)
Michel Regnier (Greg), Dibujante francés y belgo (Achille Talon, Bernard Prince) (1999)
Takeshi Shudo, Creador de pokemon (2010)

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