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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_(Turkey)" title="Republic Day (Turkey)">Republic Day</a></b> in Turkey (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wauhatchie" title="Battle of Wauhatchie">Battle of Wauhatchie</a></b>, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> opening a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_supply-chain_management" title="Military supply-chain management">supply line</a> to troops in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_C-46_Commando" title="Curtiss C-46 Commando"><span class="nowrap">C-46 airliner</span></a> carrying the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Poly_Mustangs_football" title="Cal Poly Mustangs football">Cal Poly Mustangs football</a> team <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University_football_team_plane_crash" title="California Polytechnic State University football team plane crash">crashed during takeoff</a></b> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_Express_Airport" title="Toledo Express Airport">Toledo Express Airport</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986" title="1986">1986</a> – British prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> officially opened the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M25_motorway" title="M25 motorway">M25</a></b>, one of Britain's busiest motorways.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Galileo (spacecraft)">Galileo</a></i> became the first spacecraft to visit an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a> when it made a flyby of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/951_Gaspra" title="951 Gaspra">951 Gaspra</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – The first phase of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaray" title="Marmaray">Marmaray</a></b> project opened with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaray_Tunnel" title="Marmaray Tunnel">an undersea rail tunnel</a> across the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosporus" title="Bosporus">Bosphorus</a> strait.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Abbot_(bishop)" title="George Abbot (bishop)">George Abbot</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1562); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirck_Coornhert" title="Dirck Coornhert">Dirck Coornhert</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1590); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Serra_Cary" title="Diana Serra Cary">Diana Serra Cary</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1918); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile" title="Jimmy Savile">Jimmy Savile</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2011)</p>
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