April 29

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 (&dagger 1951)
• 1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author (d. 1948)
• 1893 - Harold Urey, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (&dagger 1981)
• 1894 - Paul Hörbiger (&dagger 1981)
• 1899 - Duke Ellington, pianist, bandleader (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Fred Zinnemann, film director (d. 1997)
• 1909 - Tom Ewell, actor (&dagger 1994)
• 1918 - George Allen, American football coach, Pro Football Hall of Famer (d. 1990)
• 1919 - Celeste Holm, actress
• 1920 - Harold Shapero, composer
• 1929 - Walter Kempowski, author
• 1931 - Frank Auerbach, painter
• 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, musician (d. 2002)
• 1933 - Rod McKuen, poet, composer
• 1933 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
• 1936 - Zubin Mehta, musician
• 1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, writer
• 1938 - Larry Niven, science fiction author
• 1942 - Klaus Voormann, illustrator
• 1946 - John Waters, director, writer
• 1947 - Tommy James, musician
• 1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, philosopher
• 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer (d. 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
• 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

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