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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.

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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.

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

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Antonio Luna, Filipino revolutionary general (1866)
Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (1880)
Jean Giraudoux, French writer (1882)
Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1897)
Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (1899)
Edwige Feuillère, French actress (1907)
Eddie Constantine, French actor and singer (1917)
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1920)
Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician (1929)
Niki de Saint Phalle, French painter and sculptor (1930)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 24th President of Liberia (1938)
Don Simpson, American producer (1943)
Peter Green, English musician (Fleetwood Mac) (1946)
Richard Dreyfuss, American actor (1947)
Coline Serreau, French director (1947)
Kate Jackson, American actress (1948)
Abdullah Gül, 11th President of the Republic of Turkey (1950)
Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure) (1955)
Christophe Alévêque, French humorist (1963)
Rufus Sewell, English actor (1967)
Winona Ryder, American actress (1971)
Gabrielle Union, American actress (1972)
Robert Pirès, French footballer (1973)
Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor (1977)
Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor (1979)
Ben Foster , American actor (1980)
Reemma Sen, Indian actress (1981)
Amanda Beard, American swimmer (1981)
Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater (1987)

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Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (1783)
Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (1829)
Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher (1911)
Albert Calmette, French physician (1933)
Adolphe Menjou, American actor (1963)
Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1971)
Georges Brassens, French singer (1981)
Michel Regnier (Greg), French Belgian comics writer (Achille Talon, Bernard Prince) (1999)
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