October 29th, 2009

Born on October 29th, 2009

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 6,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 887 days, exactly on December 28th, 2028, people who were born on October 29th, 2009 will be 7,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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 2009

17

Julia Butters

American actress

*April 15th, 2009, Los Angeles

17

Walker Scobell

American actor

*January 5th, 2009, Virginia Beach

16

Marius De Saeger

Belgian actor

*September 28th, 2009, City of Brussels

17

Lou Goossens

Belgian actor

*February 24th, 2009, Opdorp

16

Owen Cooper

English actor (born 2009)

*December 5th, 2009, Warrington

16

Willis Gibson

Tetris player from Oklahoma

*November 30th, 2009, Stillwater

17

Count Henrik of Monpezat

Danish former prince; son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark

*May 4th, 2009, Rigshospitalet

17

Kim Kang-hoon

South Korean actor

*June 7th, 2009, Cheongju

17

Shin Rin-ah

South Korean actress

*May 14th, 2009, Seoul

16

Samaya Clark Gabriel

American basketball player

*October 1st, 2009, Brooklyn

16

Heo Yool

South Korean actress

*August 26th, 2009, South Korea

17

Claudia Scheunemann

Indonesian footballer (born 2009)

*April 24th, 2009, Tangerang

16

Kler Çaku

Albanian chess player

*November 30th, 2009, Shkodër

16

Leanne Bautista

Filipino child actress

*October 14th, 2009, Philippines

17

Alihan Türkdemir

Turkish actor

*June 29th, 2009, Istanbul

17

Fairooj Labiba

Bangladeshi singer

*June 13th, 2009, Khulna

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Public holidays on October 29th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on October 29th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on October 29th, 2009
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 2009 is a normal year and no leap year.

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