It happened on this day, October 29
Events:
1888 – Signing of the “Constantinople Agreement” concerning freedom of navigation in the Suez Canal.
1923 – The creation of the Turkish Republic is declared on the ruins of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, and its first president is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
1929 – The Great Depression.
1936 – A military coup in Iraq led by Lieutenant General Bakr Sidqi overthrows the government of Yassin al-Hashimi.
1954 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dissolves the Muslim Brotherhood following a failed assassination attempt on him in what is known as the Mansheya Incident.
1956 – British and Israeli forces invade Sinai to occupy the Suez Canal after its nationalization by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, in what is known as Tripartite Aggression.
1962 – The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, issues an Emirati decree appointing Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah as crown prince.
1965 – Moroccan opponent Mehdi Ben Barka disappears in Paris.
1985 – General Samuel Doe wins the presidency of Liberia in the first multi-party elections.
1998 – South Africa Reconciliation Report absolves prominent leaders of responsibility for human rights violations.
2005 – A terrorist attack in the center of the Indian capital, New Delhi, leaves sixty dead and hundreds injured.
2013 – The Marmaray railway tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait opens nine years after work began, connecting the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
2015 – Bidya Devi Bhandari is elected Nepal's first female president.
🌟Saudi Raif Badawi wins the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought presented by the European Parliament.
The Chinese government abolishes the one-child law and allows couples to have two children without conditions for the first time since 1978.
2018 – Launch of KhalifaSat, the first Emirati satellite.
🌟 An Indonesian airliner with 189 people on board crashed off the Java Sea after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on a flight to Pangkal Pinang.
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Births:
1827 – Marcelin Berthelot, French chemist and politician.
1879 – Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany.
1880 – Abram Yoffe, Russian-Soviet physicist.
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Political Propaganda of Nazi Germany.
1920 – Paroj Benacerav, American immunologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1980.
1929 – Evgeny Primakov, Russian minister.
1938 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 24th president of Liberia and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
1950 – Abdullah Gul, eleventh president of Turkey.
1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American actor and comedian.
1964 – Salwa Muhammad Ali, Egyptian actress.
1971 – Daniel Julius Bernstein, American professor specializing in mathematics, cryptography and programming.
1975 – Vi Al-Sharqawi, Bahraini actress, presenter and poet.
1983 – Jérémie Mathieu, French footballer.
1986 – Ola Pasha, Syrian actress.
1990 – Eric Saadeh, Swedish pop singer of Lebanese origin.
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Death:
1268 – King Conradin, king of Jerusalem and Sicily.
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English writer and poet.
1783 – Lorne d'Alembert, French mathematician.
1925 – Ahmad Al-Wasli Al-Samarqandi, Tajik jurist, teacher and writer – Turkestan.
1933 – Paul Pinelove, French Prime Minister.
1936 – Jaafar Al-Askari, Iraqi Minister of Defense.
1971 – Arne Tesselius, Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948.
1994 – Shlomo Goren, first military rabbi of the Israeli army.
2002 – Glenn McQueen, American entertainer.
2004 – Mejren Al-Hamad, Kuwaiti athlete and ambassador.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Republic Day in Türkiye.
⏪ International Day of Solidarity with Victims of Honor Killings.
