Wikipedia: April 29

April 29
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April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). There are 246 days remaining.

Events

1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc relieves Orleans from English siege.
1661 - China's Ming Dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1672 - Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1770 - James Cook discovers Botany Bay, Australia
1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union
1862 - American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
1903 - 30,000,000 cubic meter landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
1916 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and he designates Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor.
1945 - Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops
1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind - The last American citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.
1988 - Glasnost: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev promises increased religious freedoms.
1992 - Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. During the next 3 days 54 people will be killed and hundreds of buildings will be destroyed.

Births

1863 - William Randolph Hearst, publisher, subject of film Citizen Kane († 1951)
1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author († 1948)
1893 - Harold Urey, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry († 1981)
1894 - Paul Hörbiger († 1981)
1899 - Duke Ellington, pianist, bandleader († 1974)
1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor († 1989)
1907 - Fred Zinnemann, film director († 1997)
1909 - Tom Ewell, actor († 1994)
1918 - George Allen, American football coach, Pro Football Hall of Famer († 1990)
1919 - Celeste Holm, actress
1920 - Harold Shapero, composer
1929 - Walter Kempowski, author
1931 - Frank Auerbach, painter
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, musician († 2002)
1933 - Rod McKuen, poet, composer
1933 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
1936 - Zubin Mehta, musician
1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, writer
1942 - Klaus Voormann, illustrator
1946 - John Waters, director, writer
1947 - Tommy James, musician
1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, philosopher
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer († 2001)
1952 - David Icke, controversial conspiracy writer
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, actor, writer, producer
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, actress
1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
1966 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer
1968 - Carnie Wilson, singer
1969 - Master P, rap musician,, composer, actor, athlete, sports agent
1969 - Ludwig Chincarini, renaissance man
1970 - Andre Agassi, tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, actress

Deaths

1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist
1937 - William Gillette, actor
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher
1966 - William Eccles, physicist, radio pioneer
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director
1997 - Mike Royko, columnist

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - second day of the Floralia in honor of Flora

See Also:

April 28 - April 30 - March 28 - May 28 -- listing of all days

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