Portal:Current events/2014 October 29
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October 29, 2014 (Wednesday)
Arts and culture
- New Zealand will hold a referendum regarding its national flag in 2016. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Politics and elections
- Tunisian parliamentary election, 2014
- The results of the recent Tunisian parliamentary election are announced with the secular Nidaa Tounes party winning a plurality of seats. (BBC)
- Guy Scott, the Vice-President of Zambia, becomes the interim President following the death of Michael Sata in London on Tuesday. (Voice of America)
Sport
- In Major League Baseball, the San Francisco Giants win the 2014 World Series, defeating the Kansas City Royals by 4 games to 3 for the Giants' third World Series win in five seasons, followed by civil disorder in the streets. Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner is named as series MVP. (The Guardian), (AP)