Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 29

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 * 1792 – William Robert Broughton, a member of George Vancouver's expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of Oregon and named it Mount Hood after British admiral Samuel Hood.
 * 1831 – Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).
 * 1868 – The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.
 * 1883 – The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage for the Kingdom of Hawaii.
 * 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.
 * 1955 – An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.
 * 1956 – Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.
 * 1998 – At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
 * 1999 – About 10,000 people died when a tropical cyclone made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near the city of Bhubaneswar.
 * 2012 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
 * Born/died: | Edmund Calamy the Elder |d|1666| Dan Emmett |b|1815| Marie of Romania |b|1875|  Franz von Papen |b|1879| Joseph Goebbels |b|1897|  Frances Hodgson Burnett |d|1924|  Woody Herman |d|1987|  Lipman Bers |d|1993|

October 29: Republic Day in Turkey (1923)


 * 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
 * 1960 – A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.
 * 1986 – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
 * 1991 – Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
 * 2013 – The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.