Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 29

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October 29: Republic Day in Turkey

• 1268 - Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou.
• 1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni received its first performance in Prague.
• 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pictured) became the first President of the Republic of Turkey, a new nation founded from remnants of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1956 - The Suez Crisis began: Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and pushed Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
• 1998 - After more than three decades, 77-year old John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-95, to study the effects of space flight on the elderly.

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