What day of the week was October 29, 1998?

The day of the week October 29th, 1998 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 57 days until Christmas.

Paul Misraki the Turkish-French composer (b. 1908) died on this day in 1998.

Apartheid: In South Africa the the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board the making him the oldest person to go into space. ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission. While en route from Adana to Ankara the a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. Hurricane Mitch the the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras. The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.