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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/1792" title="1792">1792</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robert_Broughton" title="William Robert Broughton">William Robert Broughton</a>, a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Vancouver" title="George Vancouver">George Vancouver</a>'s expedition, observed a peak in the present-day U.S. state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> and named it <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood" title="Mount Hood">Mount Hood</a></b> after British admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hood,_1st_Viscount_Hood" title="Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood">Samuel Hood</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868" title="1868">1868</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanbu_clan" title="Nanbu clan">Nanbu clan</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honshu" title="Honshu">Honshu</a> surrendered to imperial forces during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin_War" title="Boshin War">Boshin War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955" title="1955">1955</a> – An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine" title="Naval mine">naval mine</a>, capsized the Soviet ship <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Giulio_Cesare" title="Italian battleship Giulio Cesare">Novorossiysk</a></b></i> in the harbor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a>, with the loss of 608 men.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – At 77 years old, former astronaut <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn" title="John Glenn">John Glenn</a></b> returned to space aboard the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery" title="Space Shuttle Discovery">Space Shuttle <i>Discovery</i></a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-95" title="STS-95"><span class="nowrap">STS-95</span></a> mission.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012" title="2012">2012</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy" title="Hurricane Sandy">Hurricane Sandy</a></b>, the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_hurricane" title="Atlantic hurricane">Atlantic hurricane</a> on record, made landfall in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_Romania" title="Marie of Romania">Marie of Romania</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1875); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Frances Hodgson Burnett</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1924); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipman_Bers" title="Lipman Bers">Lipman Bers</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1993)</p>
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