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Historical events & facts — October 29
What happened on October 29?
On October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday, the Wall Street stock market crashed catastrophically, triggering the Great Depression. Thousands of investors lost everything. Unemployment reached 25% in the United States and the crisis spread worldwide, destabilising economies and paving the way for the political extremism of the following decade.
On October 29, 1969, the University of California, Los Angeles sent the first message over ARPANET, the precursor network of the internet. The message was addressed to the Stanford Research Institute. Only the first two letters, "LO", arrived before the system crashed. Thus began the most important communications revolution in history.
On October 29, 1923, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey proclaimed the Republic of Turkey, with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as its first president. The new republic, born from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, embarked on a radical modernisation of the country: secularism, Latin alphabet, women's suffrage and legal reform. October 29 is Republic Day in Turkey.
Notable birthdays — October 29
Famous people born on October 29
Paul-Jacques Curie
Jacques Curie was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.
Baku Mahadeva
Deshamanya Balakumara Mahadeva was a leading Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant.
Jon Vickers
Jonathan Stewart Vickers, known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a world renowned Canadian heldentenor.
Isao Takahata
Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.
Mehmet Haberal
Mehmet Haberal, is the founder of Başkent University in Ankara, Turkey, best known for becoming the first transplant surgeon in Turkey after leading the team that performed Turkey's first living-related kidney transplant in 1975, after he returned from surgical training under the mentorship of American surgeon Thomas Starzl, with whom he also performed some of the longest surviving early liver …
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