They were defeated by Nader Shah, head of the Afsharids, in the October 1729 Battle of Damghan and pushed from what is now Iran to the southern Afghan region.

* October 7 – Simon Fraser, British general during the American Revolutionary War ( b. 1729 )

* October 11 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher ( d. 1729 )

Although Zedler had committed to publication on October 1728, as a precaution the year 1729 was printed on the title page.

Samuel Clarke ( 11 October 1675 – 17 May 1729 ) was an English philosopher and Anglican clergyman.

* October 11-Samuel Clarke, philosopher ( died 1729 )

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC ( 8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764 ), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729 and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain.

* 19 October 1712 – 20 January 1729 Her Highness the Infanta Barbara of Portugal

Solomon Stoddard ( September 27, 1643, baptized October 1, 1643 – February 11, 1729 ) was the pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, MA.

1692 – 26 October 1729 ), married as his second wife Arthur Annesley, 4th Baron Altham

Johann Reinhold Forster ( 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798 ) was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, KB PC ( 23 October 1729 – 14 November 1807 ) was one of the most important British generals of the 18th century.

His exact birthdate is unknown, but he was baptized 23 October 1729, so he was probably born in October.

Sir Richard Blackmore ( 22 January 1654 – 9 October 1729 ), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet.

They include ( a ) ‘ Letter to the Chevalier de St. George ,’ dated 17 October 1729 ; ( b ) ‘ Remarks on a Charter of Prince Henry, son of David I ;’ ( c ) ‘ Of the Salisbury Liturgy used in Scotland .’

As Sejm Marshal he led the extraordinary Sejms on 22-27 August, 1729 and 2-14 October, 1730 in Grodno.

October 24, 1729

* William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire 15 October 1714 – 4 June 1729

* William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire 31 October 1729 – 5 December 1755

Lothar Franz von Schönborn ( 4 October 1655 – 30 January 1729 ) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1694 until 1729, and the Bishop of Bamberg from 1693 until 1729.

In their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in October, 2006, they showed that both pure monetary rewards and charitable donations activated the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food and sex.

* 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.

They landed on 9 October on Cyprus from where they sailed to Acre.

Of those remaining Adventist, the majority gave up believing in any prophetic ( biblical ) significance for the October 22 date, yet they remained expectant of the near Advent ( second coming of Jesus ).

By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.

In mid-November 2000, the 9 / 11 Commission believes that Nami, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, all of whom had obtained their U. S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran where they could travel through to Afghanistan without getting their passports stamped.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

* 1967: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin reported that on October 20 they had captured a purported Sasquatch on film at Bluff Creek, California.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

It then sailed to Gibraltar, arriving on 18 October to the cheers of the garrison: Saumarez wrote that " We can never do justice to the warmth of their applause, and the praises they all bestowed on our squadron ".

The 97 children were taken from their homes in October 2007 by a then-obscure French charity, Zoé's Ark, which claimed they were orphans from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

In late October 2010, University of Michigan biologist Barry O ' Connor concluded that all of the ' chupacabras ' reports in the United States were simply coyotes infected with the parasite Sarcoptes scabiei, the symptoms of which would explain most of the features of the chupacabras: they would be left with little fur, thickened skin, and rank odour.

By October 1962, they may have had a few dozen, although some intelligence estimates were as high as 75.

On October 15, the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center reviewed the U-2 photographs and identified objects that they interpreted as medium range ballistic missiles.

On June 8, 2012, the brothers announced that they would no longer broadcast new episodes as of October.

On the return of the Beagle ( October 1836 ) Lyell invited Darwin to dinner and from then on they were close friends.

Following riots in Leopoldville between 4 – 7 January 1959, and Stanleyville on 31 October 1959, the Belgians realised they could not maintain control of such a vast country in the face of rising demands for independence.

Dallas wore this alternate uniform on October 11, 2009 as part of one of the NFL's AFL Legacy Weekends when they traveled to Kansas City to play the Chiefs who were sporting their AFL Dallas Texans ' uniforms.

In October 2007, the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, notified its staff that the casino was closing and they were going to be laid off.

On October 19, 2010, military recruiters were told they could accept openly gay applicants.

In an October 2008 interview, Devo confirmed that they would be completing their new album.

Changes in educational establishments came about as Americans and Europeans felt they had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically after the success of Sputnik in October, 1957.