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29 October
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1920 Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university located in New Delhi, was established by the efforts of former President Zakir Hussain.
- 1930 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two years following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.
- 1985 Boxer Vijendra Singh, who won India's first Olympic medal in boxing, was born.
- 1988 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom activist, passed away. She is most remembered for her contribution to the Indian independence movement; for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India.
- 1999 A massive cyclone sweeps through the state of Orissa, killing an unknown number of people and leaving thousands homeless.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1911 American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died in Charleston, S.C.
- 1927 Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute.
- 1945 First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Reynolds in the US.
- 1954 Lee Child, author, creator of the Jack Reacher novel series was born.
- 1958 Boris Pasternak is awarded the Nobel Prize, but he is forced to decline it at the behest of Soviet authorities, who have banned his novel Doctor Zhivago.
- 1959 Asterix is first published in the French magazine Pilote by Rene Goscinny, illustrated by Albert Uderzo.
- 1960 Cassius Clay's (later Muhammad Ali) first professional fight, beating Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1969 First computer-to-computer link; the link is accomplished through ARPANET, forerunner of the Internet.
- 1991 The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, an asteroid. It becomes the first probe to visit an asteroid.
- 1998 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, returned to space at age 77, becoming the oldest person to travel in space.
- 2015 China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years. Beginning in 2016, couples could have two children.
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