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October 29

 * 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
 * 1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by the 1st Polish Armoured Division.
 * 1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
 * 1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.