This Day In European History

29th October

Events
1669: Cambridge appoint Isaac Newton Professor of Mathematics.
1787: Mozart's Don Giovanni premiers.
1863: The Red Cross formed by Switerland's Henri Dunant in response to Battle of Solferino in Italy.

Births
1507: Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish soldier and later governor.
1740: James Boswell, Scottish writer.
1811: Louis Blanc, French socialist.
1879: Franz von Papen, German statesman.
1897: Joseph Goebbels, German propaganda minister.

Deaths
1618: Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer, executed.
1666: Edmund Calamy, English theologian.
1783: Jean d'Alembert, French writer.

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