October 29 in history: • 1883 – The San Francisco Mint signed a contract to produce the Kalākaua coinage (coin pictured) for the Hawaiian Kingdom. → go there • 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Israel Defense Forces massacred at least 52 villagers while capturing the Palestinian Arab village of Safsaf. → go there • 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. → go there • 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. → go there • 2007 – Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu. → go there Born 1875: Marie of Romania Wiki link Died 1924: Frances Hodgson Burnett Wiki link Died 1940: Phan Bội Châu Wiki link Born 1989: Primož Roglič Wiki link Pictured: Kalākaua dime.