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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
1400-1799
1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc relieves Orléans from English siege.
1661 - China's Ming Dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1672 - Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1800-1899
1854 - The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first college for African American students.
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.
1900-1999
1903 - A 30,000,000-cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
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.
1932 - The radio program One Man's Family debuts.
1944 - Dancing Romeo, the last Our Gang film, premiers.
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 Dönitz as his successor.
1945 - Holocaust: The 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.
1960 - Payola Scandal: Radio disk jockey Dick Clark denies involvement in the scandal in front of a United States House of Representatives subcommittee.
1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1969 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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.
1991 - Richard Cheney gives a speech at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium explaining why he believed it would have been "a mistake" to invade Iraq.
1992 - 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people will be killed and hundreds of buildings will be destroyed.
1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
2000-2099
2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 - Richard Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
Births
1600-1799
1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
1800-1899
1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author (d. 1948)
1893 - Harold Urey, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (d. 1981)
1894 - Paul Hörbiger (d. 1981)
1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist, bandleader (d. 1974)
1900-1999
1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989)
1907 - Fred Zinnemann, film director (d. 1997)
1909 - Tom Ewell, actor (d. 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
1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931 - Frank Auerbach, painter
1931 - Lonnie Donegan, musician (d. 2002)
1933 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
1933 - Rod McKuen, poet, composer
1934 - Otis Rush, blues musician
1936 - Zubin Mehta, musician
1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, writer
1942 - Klaus Voormann, illustrator
1946 - John Waters, director, writer
1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, philosopher
1947 - Tommy James, musician
1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer (d. 2001)
1952 - David Icke, controversial conspiracy writer
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, actress ()
1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
1958 - Eve Plumb, actress (The Brady Bunch)
1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction writer
1964 - Federico Castelluccio, actor
1966 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer
1967 - Curtis Joseph, NHL goalie
1968 - Carnie Wilson, singer
1969 - Master P, rap musician, composer, actor, athlete, sports agent
1970 - Andre Agassi, tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, actress
Deaths
1700-1899
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1900-1999
1937 - William Gillette, actor (b. 1853)
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
1957 - Belle Baker, American 1920s torch singer, film & tv actress, (b. 1893)
1966 - William Eccles, physicist, radio pioneer
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (b. 1899)
1997 - Mike Royko, columnist (b. 1932)
2000-2099
2003 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - second day of the Floralia in honor of Flora
Catholicism - Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena
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