The date of 29 Cheshvan marks the yahrtzeits of several notable Jewish figures. Rav Yitzchak Eizik Chover, author of Responsa Binyan Olam and Si'ach Yitzchak, is commemorated on this day. One of his students, HaRav Yitzchak Kahane, went on to write Toldos Yitzchak in 1852. Also remembered is Rav Avraham Abish Kanner, the Tchechover Rebbe of Haifa, who passed away in 1983.
Historically, 29 Cheshvan marks the birth in 1817 of Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, known as the Netziv of Volozhin. The date also commemorates a 1941 naval engagement off the Australian coast between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran, in which both vessels sank. The battle resulted in the loss of 645 Australian lives and 77 German lives.