Talk:October 29

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October 29: Republic Day in Turkey 1268 – Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou. 1787 – The opera Don Giovanni, based on the legendary fictional libertine Don Juan and composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (pictured), premiered in the Estates Theatre in Prague. 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first President of the Republic of Turkey, a new nation founded from remnants of the Ottoman Empire. 1956 – The Suez Crisis began with Israel invading the Sinai Peninsula and pushing Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. 1998 – After more than three decades, 77-year old John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-95, to study the effects of space flight on the elderly. More events: October 28 – October 29 – October 30 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 06:21, June 13, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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• 1682 - William Penn arrives in Pennsylvania

Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type websites (very bad source). --mav 01:13, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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• 1942 - The Alaska Highway is completed.

Happened the day before. --mav 01:13, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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• 1998 - In London, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman win a substantial settlement from Express Newspapers for an article that was run on October 5, 1997 that claimed that both were homosexual and their marriage was a sham.

Celebrity news doesn't seem very important in the general scheme of things. This kind of thing happens all the time, why should it be on Wikipedia?

(I made other changes in the edit, if this is overturned please just reinsert it instead of reverting the edit.)

--- Removed: 1945 - At Gimbels Department Store in New York City the first ballpoint pens go on sale (price: $12.50 each).

The article specifies trhat biros were made in Argentina two years previous to this (and presumably were also sold there, not merely stockpiled indefinately). So the anniversary is of the first US sales, not the first World sales ... and we're not into US-centricism, non? --Tagishsimon