WHAT HAPPENED ON 29. OCTOBER
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Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. (29. October 1901)

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 of 1918–19. (29. October 1918)

The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed. (29. October 1921)

Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America. (29. October 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. (29. October 1921)

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. (29. October 1922)

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. (29. October 1923)

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. (29. October 1929)

The 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". (29. October 1941)

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. (29. October 1942)

The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division. (29. October 1944)

Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns. (29. October 1945)

Safsaf massacre. (29. October 1948)

BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed. (29. October 1953)

The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. (29. October 1955)

Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. (29. October 1956)

The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco. (29. October 1956)

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. (29. October 1957)

In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. (29. October 1960)

An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio. (29. October 1960)

   
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