October 29th, 1945 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyer HMS Queenborough commissioned.
JAPAN: IJN submarine I-363 en-route from Kure to Sasebo hits a mine and sinks, ten crewmen are rescued but 33 are lost. More...
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Drummondville paid off.
U.S.A.: The US Army's 1399th Engineering Construction Battalion is awarded a Meritorious Service Plaque for "superior performance and record of accomplishment and exceptional devotion to duty". They are a Japanese-American unit. More...
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) sails from San Francisco bound for Pearl Harbor where she is to be converted into a troop transport.
Destroyer USS Robert A Owens laid down.
The Committee to Evaluate the Feasibility of Space Rocketry recommends that detailed studies be made to determine the feasibility of an Earth Satellite Vehicle. This leads the USN Bureau of Aeronautics to issue contracts to one university and three companies for theoretical study, and preliminary design of a launch vehicle and for determining by actual test the specific impulse of high energy fuels including liquid hydrogen-oxygen.
The first commercially-made ballpoint pens goes on sale, at Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The pens sell for US$12.50 (US$135.63 in year 2005 dollars) and rack up a tidy profit of US$500,000 (US$5.99 million in year 2005 dollars) in the first month!
The top songs on the pop music charts are: "I'll Buy That Dream" by The Pied Pipers; "That's for Me" by Dick Haymes; "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" by Johnny Mercer; and "With Tears in My Eyes" by Wesley Tuttle.