On this day in history
October 29
EgyptianBuddhistIslamicScience
- 1875 CEEgyptian · died
John Gardner Wilkinson, whose 'Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians' long shaped the field, died on this day in 1875.
- 1919 CEBuddhist · died
Soyen Shaku, the Rinzai abbot who in 1893 became the first Zen master to teach in the United States, died on 29 October 1919 in Kamakura.
- 1920 CEIslamic · founded
Jamia Millia Islamia, a nationalist Muslim university, was founded at Aligarh, later moving to Delhi, blending modern and Islamic learning.
- 1969 CEScience
On 29 October 1969 the first host-to-host message was sent over ARPANET, from UCLA to Stanford Research Institute, a founding moment of the network that became the internet.