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Events on October 29

• 1268 Charles I of Anjou has the King of Sicily, Conradin of Hohenstaufen, executed in Naples. Thus the Hohenstaufen dynasty dies out.
• 1787 The opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premieres in Prague.
• 1838 The railway line of the Berlin-Potsdam Railway is completed and opened as the first railway line in Prussia.
• 1923 Broadcasting in Germany begins at 8 p.m. with an entertainment program by the broadcasting company Funk-Stunde AG from the Vox-Haus in Berlin-Tiergarten.
• 1959 In the first issue of the comic magazine Pilote, the first installment of Astérix le Gaulois appears.
• 1969 At the University of California in Los Angeles, the first message is sent between two distant computers, and thus the Internet is born.
• 1976 Erich Honecker is elected Chairman of the State Council by the People's Chamber of the GDR.
• 1994 At Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, construction begins on the Quartier Daimler and thus on a new Berlin district.
• 1998 At age 77, John Glenn flies into space for the second time aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Space medicine experts expect the STS-95 mission to provide insights into aging, among other things.
• 2004 The European Constitution is signed in Rome.
• 2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft, lands at Frankfurt Airport to test its handling.
• 2024 A flood disaster in Spain claims 237 lives.

Born on October 29

• 1880 Otto Flake, German poet
• 1891 Fanny Brice, American actress
• 1921 Alois Mertes, German politician
• 1930 Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist
• 1960 Dieter Nuhr, German cabaret artist and comedian
• 1970 Jan Plewka, German singer and actor
• 1970 Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
• 1971 Winona Ryder, American film actress
• 1983 Malik Fathi, German footballer
• 1990 Jascha Rust, German actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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