October 29th, 1628

Born on October 29th, 1628

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 145,000 days old!

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What happened on October 29th?

October 29th, 2007

Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.

October 29th, 1883

The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage (coin pictured) for the Hawaiian Kingdom.

October 29th, 2013

The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.

October 29th, 2012

Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.

October 29th, 1999

About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.

October 29th, 1998

At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.

October 29th, 1991

Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.

October 29th, 1986

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.

October 29th, 1960

A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.

October 29th, 1956

Following the nationalisation of the Egypt's Suez Canal, Israel, France, and the United Kingdom invaded the Sinai Peninsula.

October 29th, 1955

An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol, with the loss of 608 men.

October 29th, 1948

Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf.

October 29th, 1868

The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during the Boshin War.

October 29th, 1863

American Civil War: The Battle of Wauhatchie, one of the few night battles of the war, concluded with the Union Army opening a supply line to troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

October 29th, 1831

Rioting broke out in Bristol, England, after the Second Reform Bill failed to pass parliament, causing 250 casualties and £300,000 of damage (pictured).

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 29th

Same year
Born in 1628

75

Charles Perrault

French author (1628-1703)

*January 12th, 1628, Paris †May 16th, 1703, Paris

66

Marcello Malpighi

Italian physician (1628-1694)

*March 10th, 1628, Crevalcore †November 29th, 1694, Rome

74

Dominique Bouhours

French literary critic

*May 15th, 1628, Paris †May 27th, 1702, Paris

91

Carlo Cignani

Italian painter (1628-1719)

*May 15th, 1628, Bologna †September 8th, 1719, Forlì

51

Guillaume Courtois

French painter of the Late Baroque (1628-1679)

*January 1st, 1628, Franche-Comté †June 15th, 1679, Rome

24

Marek Sobieski

Polish nobleman

*May 24th, 1628, Zolochiv †June 3rd, 1652, Chetvertinivka

78

Oswald Onghers

Flemish painter (1628-1706)

*October 5th, 1628, Mechelen †December 24th, 1706, Würzburg

86

Conrad von Rosen

French general of baltic origin

*September 29th, 1628, Livonia †August 3rd, 1715, Bollwiller

55

Johann Adam Schertzer

German theologian (1628-1683)

*August 1st, 1628, Cheb †December 23rd, 1683, Leipzig

55

Cornelis Speelman

Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (1628-1684)

*March 2nd, 1628, Rotterdam †January 11th, 1684, Jakarta

81

Alvise II Mocenigo

Doge of Venice (1628-1709)

*January 3rd, 1628, Venice †May 6th, 1709, Venice

66

Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé

French noble (1628-1694)

*February 25th, 1628, Brézé †April 16th, 1694, Châteauroux

56

Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Queen consort of Denmark and Norway

*March 24th, 1628, Herzberg am Harz †February 20th, 1685, Copenhagen

86

César d'Estrées

Catholic cardinal (1628-1714)

*February 5th, 1628, Paris †December 18th, 1714, Paris

51

Frans Burman

Dutch theologian (1628-1679)

*January 13th, 1628, Leiden †November 12th, 1679, Utrecht

86

Constantin Christian Dedekind

German poet, dramatist and composer

*April 2nd, 1628, Reinsdorf †January 1st, 1715, Dresden

86

Daniel Papebroch

Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (1628–1714)

*March 17th, 1628, Antwerp †June 28th, 1714, Antwerp

65

August Friedrich Mockel

German politician (1628-1694)

*December 2nd, 1628, Schwäbisch Hall †August 8th, 1694, Heilbronn

72

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

English Royalist soldier and statesman

*August 29th, 1628, Kilkhampton †August 22nd, 1701

72

Tokugawa Mitsukuni

Daimyo of the early Edo period; 2nd lord of Mito (1628-1701)

*July 11th, 1628, Mito †January 14th, 1701

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Leap year

Yes: 1628 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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