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October 29

October 29 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Winona Ryder (1971), Gabrielle Union (1972) and Vittorio Rambaldi (1957). Several movies were released around October 29 over the years, such as Dosti in 1964 directed by Satyen Bose and Drums Along the Mohawk in 1939 directed by John Ford.
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Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released around October 29 over the years?

Dosti

Release year: 1964

Directed by: Satyen Bose

Starring: Sudhir Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sanjay Khan, Baby Farida

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Drums Along the Mohawk

Release year: 1939

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins

Country: United States of America

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Illusion

Release year: 2004

Directed by: Michael A. Goorjian

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Michael A. Goorjian, Karen Tucker, Bryan Cranston

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Everybody's Fine

Release year: 2009

Directed by: Kirk Jones

Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore

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The Virginian

Release year: 1929

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen

Country: United States of America

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 29?

Holidays

St. Terence of Metz
Turkey - Republic Day (1923)
Anglican Church - James Hannington
St. Zenobius
St. Theodore
St. Bond
Saint Colman of Kilmacduagh
St. Maximillian
St. Donatus of Corfu
St. Anne
St. Abraham of Rostov
R.C. Saints - October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem, Diwali in 1989.
Douai Martyrs
St. Elfleda
St. Hyacinth
St. Ida of Leeuw
St. John of Autun
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Events

2018 Syrian Civil War: The National Museum of Damascus reopens to the public six years after it was closed due to the war. (BBC)
2017 Northern Rakhine State clashes: More than 2,000 people march in Yangon to show support for the military, urging the military to secure the country's sovereignty, protect national security and stop illegal intruders (referring to the Rohingya people). (ABC News)
2016 Sectarianism in Pakistan: Five people are killed and several other civilians injured as armed terrorists, targeting Shia Muslims, open fire on participants of a Majlis at a home in the Nazimabad district of Karachi, Pakistan. (Samaa TV) (The Express Tribune)
2015 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): The death toll from a rocket attack on a camp containing members of an Iranian opposition group next to Baghdad International Airport rises to 23. (Jerusalem Post)
2014 New Zealand will hold a referendum regarding its national flag in 2016. (BBC)
2013 2013 Tiananmen Square incident: Police in China name two suspects from Xinjiang linked to an apparent suicide attack car crash outside the Forbidden City on Tiananmen Square in the capital Beijing. (BBC)
2012 Syrian civil war:: Two deadly car bombings rock Damascus, according to Syrian state media. (BBC)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising:
2010 The memoir of George W. Bush reveals his initial belief that he had United Airlines Flight 93 shot down during the September 11 attacks in 2001. (''The Guardian'')
2009 The Haitian Senate votes to remove Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis. (AP via Google News)
2008 Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sells a US 1868 3-cent rose George Washington postage stamp with "B" grill embossing for US$900,000 (US$1,035,000 with buyer's fee). The stamp is one of four known.
2007 The strain of HIV most common in the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and much of South America is traced back to Haiti in 1969. (BBC)
2006 Mexican federal police seize the center of Oaxaca, which had served as the headquarters for the five-month protest occupation of the city. (International Herald Tribune)
2005 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2004 In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2003 Medicine: The US FDA approves Risperdal Consta (Risperidone long-acting injection) for the treatment of schizophrenia. Although already approved in several other countries, it is the first long-acting, atypical antipsychotic medication to be approved by the FDA.
2002 Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
1999 A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1995 Fool Moon opens at Ambassador Theater, New York City
1994 Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
1993 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
1992 The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as the New York Yankees' manager.
1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented fourth different weight boxing title.
1986 Kirk Muller scores New Jersey Devil record 6 point, beat Penguins, 8-6
1985 Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win New York Marathon.
1983 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
1982 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release Girl is Mine
1981 Bill Giles becomes CEO of Philadelphia Phillies
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.
1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1977 Act opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim
1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
1972 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1971 The NBC TV network airs the TV special Grand Opening of Walt Disney World. Approximately 52 million people in the US view the 90-minute show.
1970 WYEA (now WLTZ) TV channel 38 in Columbus, Georgia (NBC) 1st broadcast
1969 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation at once
1967 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1966 National Organization For Women is founded.
1964 Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee
1963 Meet the Beatles booklet is published
1961 Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16.
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
1956 Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1955 Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1953 A Baltimore group purchases St. Louis Browns
1950 British Minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns
1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev
1947 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands form Benelux Union
1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it is patented
1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda Neth
1943 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1942 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault
1941 Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the ''Great Action''.
1940 Secretary of War Henry L Stimson draws first number (158) in first peacetime military draft in US history.
1939 NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1936 The historic Uptown Theater opens in Washington D.C.
1932 French liner Normandie is launched
1930 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs. Toronto Balmy Beach
1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market crashes trigger the Great Depression
1924 Dixie to Broadway, opens at Broadhurst Theater
1923 Army move SPD / KPD-Government to German part of Saxon
1922 The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1921 The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of New York Yankees
1918 The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German revolution.
1915 Aristide Briand becomes Premier of France
1914 Turkish warships storm Black Sea
1910 Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game.
1905 Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1904 IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) subway (NYC) opens
1901 Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
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Famous Birthday

Winona Ryder: American actress who entered movies at...
Gabrielle Union: American actress.
Vittorio Rambaldi
Rufus Sewell: English actor.
Tove Lo: Pop Singer.
Yasmin Le Bon: British model.
Robert Pirès: French footballer (until 2012), who...
Kate Jackson: TV Actress.
Danielle Mitterrand: French First Lady, the wife of President...
Gérard Klein (actor)
Ben Foster (acteur)
Niki de Saint Phalle: French sculptor, painter and filmmaker...
Richard Dreyfuss: American actor who rose to prominence in...
Tracee Ellis Ross: American actress.
Frida Boccara: French singer of Italian descent.
Christophe Alévêque: French actor and humourist.
Tibet (comics)
Edwige Feuillère: French stage/film/tv actress, director,...
Peter Green: British rock musician, a guitarist and...
Abdullah Gül: Turkish academic and politician 11th...
Nicolas Gob: Belgian actor with a love of sports like...
Brendan Fehr: Canadian actor.
Amanda Beard: American swimmer, an Olympic-level...
Serge Ayoub
Finola Hughes: English actress dancer and director.
Aurélie Nemours
Randy Jackson (The Jacksons)
Tassadit Imache
Cecilie Thomsen
Jérémy Mathieu
Andrew-Lee Potts: English actor director and producer.
Steeve Estatof
Antoine Prost
Myriam Soumaré
Louis Hamlin: American homicide; his story was told by...
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: President of Liberia.
Chelan Simmons: Canadian model and actress.
Marc Thiercelin
Coline Serreau: French actress, film director and...
Médéric Clain
Toby Smith
André Brasilier: French artist and painter.
Pierre Groscolas
Jess Hahn
Joseph F Goodavage
Félix Marten: French actor, director and singer.
Evgeni Primakov
Jon Abrahams: American actor.
Isao Takahata: Japanese director producer and...
Eddie Constantine: Actor (Alphaville, License to Kill),...
Jean-Marc Sylvestre: French journalist who writes for the...
Gottfried John
Michael Jayston: English actor.
Jose Acasuso
Gérard Vignoble
Dan Feuerriegel
Robert Hardy: English actor.
Johan Olav Koss
André Dierickx
Guy Héraud
Russ (rapper)
Don Simpson: American film producer who, with his...
Pierre Doris: French film, television and theatre...
Dominick Dunne: American writer who had a late start,...
Nurcan Taylan: Turkish weightlifter.
Janet Montgomery: English actress and dancer.
Christiane Collange
Sonny Osborne: American musician, a bluegrass singer...
Karine Laurent Philippot
Francesca Vacca: Italian aristocracy, a missing person...
Nathaniel Crosby: American noted family, the second son of...
José Mijares
Almir Pazzianoto: Brazilian jurist for the Ministry of...
Damian Chapa
Anne Alvaro
Bruno Cassinari: Italian fine artist, painter, goldsmith,...
Cleopatra Coleman: TV Actress.
Giovanna Milella: Italian writer, journalist and TC...
Fredric Brown: American science fiction and mystery...
Simone Spoladore
Franck de Lapersonne
Denny Laine: English singer-songwriter and guitarist...
Valeska Canoletti: Brazilian model who was second born of...
Lisa Bresner
Bill Mauldin: American artist who was an outstanding...
Alfred Henry Simpson
Loudi Nijhoff: Dutch actress who became known as the...
Franco Interlenghi: Italian stage, film and TV actor.
Toni Childs
Einar Örn Benediktsson
Paul di Filippo
Johnny Lewis (actor)
Annemarie Warnkross
Joely Fisher: American actress and director.
Perc Westmore
James Dillon
Thaïs Henríquez
Peter Breuer: German ballet dancer with the Munich...
Melba Moore: American singer and actress, she is...
Eric Staal: Canadian ice hockey player.
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Famous Deaths

Anton LaVey: American founder of the Church of Satan...
Duane Allman: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
John Lodge: English singer-songwriter bass player...
Rosemarie Nitribitt: German call girl (Born 1933).
Terry Southern: American screenwriter (Born 1924).
Terry Southern: American screenwriter (Born 1924).
Woody Herman: American musician of big bandleader era.
Paul Misraki: Turkish-French composer and historian...
William Kapell: American pianist (Born 1922).
Theodore Samuel Holland: Composer, dies at 69.
Gustav V: King of Sweden, dies at 92.
De Raymond: French High Director of Cambodia,...
Robert G Aitken: US astronomer (New General Catalogue),...
Naphtali Siegfried Salomon: Composer, dies at 77.
Mehdi Am Barka: Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in...
[Louis C] Marcel Berckmans: Painter / actor (Manner Kater), dies at...
Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad: Composer, dies at 78.
Heathcote Dicken Statham: Composer, dies at 83.
Victor E van Vriesland: Poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at...
John Scott Trotter: Orchestra leader (George Gobel Show),...
William O Walker: publisher of the Cleveland Call Post,...
Sten Broman: Composer, dies at 81.
Sem Presser: Dutch press photographer, dies at 68.
Kamal El Mallakh: Dies at 57.
Donald Churchill: Playwright, dies of heart attack at 60.
Harry Thomas: Founder (Flower Festival, Dutch...
Maria Monica: Silent film actress.
Adrienne Canivez: Wife of Victor of Vriesland.
Raymond Lockhart: TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report),...
Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer: Dies at 84.
Evelyn Anderson: Dancer, dies at 87.
Pearl Primus: Dancer, dies at 44.
Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams: Broadcaster, dies at 50.
Patrick Johnson: Physicist, dies at 92.
Leon Czolgosz: American assassin of U.S.
Etienne Desmarteau: Canadian athlete (Born 1873).
G I Gurdjieff: Armenian mystic (Born 1872).
King Gustaf: V of Sweden (Born 1858).
Louis B Mayer: American film producer (Born 1885).
Zoe Akins: American playwright (Born 1886).
Frances Cleveland Preston: former first lady (USA), dies in...
William French Smith: US attorney general (1980), dies at age...
John Sebastian Little: American politician and congressman...
Ramiro de Maeztu: Spanish writer and political theorist...
Dwight B Waldo: American educator and historian (Born...
Lipman Bers: American Mathematician (Born1914).
Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos: Greek-American astronomer and NASA...
Michel Regnier (Greg): Belgian comic-book writer and artist...
Mohammadu Maccido: 18th Sultan of Sokoto (Born 1928).
Mike Baker: American singer Shadow Gallery (Born...
Joseph Babinski: French neurologist of Polish descent.
Albert Calmette: French physician, bacteriologist and...
Kenneth MacMillan: Scottish ballet dancer, choreographer...
Adolphe Menjou: American actor, considered one of...
Joseph Pulitzer: Hungarian-American publisher.
Mario Scelba: Italian Christian Democratic politician...
Paul Painleve: French mathematician and politician...
Glenn McQueen: American animator (Born 1960).
Shlomo Goren: Polish-Israeli rabbi and general (d....
Vaughn Meader: American comedian and actor (d. 2004).
Mimis Fotopoulos: Greek actor and poet (d. 1986).
Chiyonoyama Masanobu: Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st...
Leon Czolcosz: Assassin of President McKinley, is...
Harvey Hendrick: American baseball player (Born 1897).
Soen Shaku: Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in...
Johann Ernst Perabo: Composer, dies at 74.
George August Lumbye: Composer, dies at 79.
Leonard Nelson: German philosopher (Nelson-Friessche...
Luciano Gallet: Composer, dies at 38.
Joseph F F Babinski: Polish / French neurologist (B-Reflex).
Gustavo Emilio Campa: Composer, dies at 71.
John S Curry: US Painter (Baptism in Kansas).
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Music charts

Which were the top hits in that special week of October 29 over the years?

Top #1 songs in the USA

2017 Rockstar - Post Malone Featuring 21 Savage
2016 Closer - The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey
2015 The Weeknd - The Hills
2014 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
2013 Lorde - Royals
2012 One More Night - Maroon 5
2011 Someone Like You - Adele
2010 Like A G6 - Far*East Movement
2009 Britney Spears - 3
2008 Britney Spears - Womanizer
2007 Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy Tell'em
2006 Ludacris - Money Maker
2005 Kanye West - Gold Digger
2004 Ciara - Goodies
2003 Beyonce - Baby Boy
2002 Nelly - Dilemma
2001 Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real
2000 Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)
1999 Santana - Smooth
1998 Monica - The First Night
1997 Elton John - Candle In The Wind 1997
1997 Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight
1996 Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
1995 Mariah Carey - Fantasy
1994 Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
1993 Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
1992 Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
1991 Mariah Carey - Emotions
1990 Janet Jackson - Black Cat
1989 Janet Jackson - Miss You Much
1988 Phil Collins - Groovy Kind Of Love
1987 Michael Jackson - Bad
1986 Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
1985 Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You
1984 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
1983 Kenny Rogers - Islands In The Stream
1982 Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
1981 Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)
1980 Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love
1979 Herb Alpert - Rise
1978 Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City
1977 Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
1976 Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
1975 Neil Sedaka - Bad Blood
1974 Dionne Warwicke - Then Came You
1973 Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia
1972 Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling
1970 Jackson 5 - I'll Be There
1969 The Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You
1968 The Beatles - Hey Jude
1967 Lulu - To Sir With Love
1966 ? (Question Mark) and the Mysterians - 96 Tears
1965 The Beatles - Yesterday
1964 Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy
1963 Jimmy Gilmer - Sugar Shack
1962 Bobby (Boris) Pickett - Monster Mash
1961 Dion - Runaround Sue
1960 Brenda Lee - I Want To Be Wanted (Per Tutta La Vita)
1959 Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
1958 Tommy Edwards - It's All In The Game
1957 The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
1955 Roger Williams - Autumn Leaves
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Top #1 Rock songs

2017 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
2016 Heathens - twenty one pilots
2015 Renegades - X Ambassadors
2014 A Sky Full Of Stars - Coldplay
2013 Lorde - Royals
2012 fun. - Some Nights
2011 Walk - Foo Fighters
2010 Stone Sour - Say You'll Haunt Me
2009 Alice In Chains - Check My Brain

Books

Which were the most popular books released around October 29 over the years?

Without Remorse

Year: 1993

By: Tom Clancy

Clancy shows how an ordinary man crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark.

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Soul On Ice

Year: 1968

By: Eldridge Cleaver

The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.By

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The Right And The Power

Year: 1976

By: Leon Jaworski

First Edition. Book is in NF condition. Black boards with gilt lettering. DJ is Good Condition, has tiny tears and creases.

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A Second-Hand Life

Year: 1967

By: Charles Jackson

A Second-Hand Life

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Star Woman

Year: 1986

By: Lynn V. Andrews

Join Lynn Andrews on her personal vision quest as she searches for an ancient knowledge to bridge the gap between the primal mind and white consciousness, guided by a white stallion

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Movies

Dosti

Drums Along the Mohawk

Illusion

Everybody's Fine

The Virginian

Historical Events

Music charts

Books

Without Remorse

Soul On Ice

The Right And The Power

A Second-Hand Life

Star Woman