October 29, 1972 (Sunday)
- Palestinian gunmen hijacked a Lufthansa Airlines flight and demanded release of surviving members of the Black September group who had participated in the Munich massacre. West Germany released the prisoners the next day.
- In Houston, four fugitive bank robbers broke through airport security, killed ticket agent Stanley Hubbard, and then fought their way onto an Eastern Airlines jet, Flight 496, which they then hijacked to Cuba.
- Born: Tracee Ellis Ross, American TV actress (Girlfriends), in Los Angeles; Gabrielle Union, American actress, in Omaha; and Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur, in Yame, Fukuoka
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Famous quotes containing the word october:
“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)