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October 29, 2020

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 2020, covering October 29, 2020.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Folklore by Taylor Swift

    Folklore

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    10
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    13
  2. 2
    Album cover for Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon by Pop Smoke

    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon

    Pop Smoke

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    16
  3. 3
    Album cover for Savage Mode II by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin

    Savage Mode II

    21 Savage & Metro Boomin

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for Legends Never Die by Juice WRLD

    Legends Never Die

    Juice WRLD

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  5. 5
    Album cover for Wildflowers by Tom Petty

    Wildflowers

    Tom Petty

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    58

Notable Deaths

Angelika Amon

2020Angelika Amon, Austrian-American molecular and cell biologist (born 1967)[†]

Angelika Amon was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Amon's research centered on how chromosomes are regulated, duplicated, and partitioned in the cell cycle. Amon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

Historical Events

Jeremy Corbyn

2020Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.[†]

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983. Now an independent, Corbyn had been a member of the Labour Party from 1965 until his expulsion in 2024, and was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus. He served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. Corbyn identifies ideologically as a socialist on the political left.

Historical Context for October 29, 2020

In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]