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This day in history: October 29

1. 1986

   British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.

2. 1991

   Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.

3. 1998

   At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.

4. 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.

5. 2007

   Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.

6. 2012

   Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.

7. 2013

   The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait.

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