On this day 29th October

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Facts

539 BC King Cyrus "the Great" of Persia marches into Babylon, freeing Jewish captives and allowing them to return home

1268 Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the German Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed with Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily

1665 Battle of Mbwila [Ambuila],: Portuguese forces defeat forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King Antonio I of Kongo / Nvita a Nkanga

1929 "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"

2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years

Deaths

1038 Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury

1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet, historian and explorer, beheaded for treason at about 64

1783 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosophe/mathematician, dies at 66

1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56

1911 Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, South Carolina

1950 Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92

1985 John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint) and politician (governor R-CT), dies at 82

1993 Roger Turner, American figure skater (7x US National Champion), dies at 92

2011 Jimmy Savile, British entertainer and suspected sexual predator, dies at 84

Born on this day

1971 Winona Ryder, American actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand), born in Winona, Minnesota

Walter Raleigh

Joseph Pulitzer