8 Aban 1383 | Friday 29 October 2004

This day in four calendars

1956 (70 years ago) Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1964 (62 years ago) The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.
1969 (57 years ago) The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1985 (41 years ago) Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1998 (28 years ago) Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
2014 (12 years ago) A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.
2015 (11 years ago) China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.
2020 (6 years ago) Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.

1879 (147 years ago) Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969)
1897 (129 years ago) Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
1938 (88 years ago) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 (79 years ago) Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist
1950 (76 years ago) Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey
1970 (56 years ago) Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster
1971 (55 years ago) Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
1982 (44 years ago) Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syrian revolutionary and military leader, President of Syria

1618 (408 years ago) Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1554)
1783 (243 years ago) Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)
1897 (129 years ago) Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (born 1839)
1911 (115 years ago) Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (born 1847)
1924 (102 years ago) Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (born 1849)
1950 (76 years ago) Gustaf V of Sweden,
1971 (55 years ago) Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
1997 (29 years ago) Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)