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April 29

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

April 29 - Events

• 1429 - Battle of Orléans: French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English siege of Orléans, a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
• 1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
• 1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
• 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.
• 1903 - A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
• 1910 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 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.
• 1944 - "Dancing Romeo," the last Our Gang film, premiers.
• 1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
• 1945 - World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
• 1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and 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.
• 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 U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.
• 1992 - 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
• 1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
• 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.
• 2004 Last Oldsmobile produced

April 29 - Births

• 1665 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745)
• 1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
• 1686 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742)
• 1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (d. 1810)
• 1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
• 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
• 1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
• 1854 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
• 1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
• 1876 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
• 1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
• 1882 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945)
• 1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948)
• 1893 - Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• 1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
• 1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
• 1907 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (d. 1997)
• 1909 - Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Celeste Holm, American actress
• 1918 - George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
• 1920 - Harold Shapero, American composer
• 1925 - Ned Austin, American character actor
• 1929 - Walter Kempowski, German author
• 1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
• 1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
• 1931 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
• 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
• 1933 - Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1933 - Rod McKuen, American poet and composer
• 1934 - Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• 1934 - Otis Rush, American musician
• 1936 - Zubin Mehta, Indian-born American conductor
• 1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
• 1938 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d.2004)
• 1942 - Klaus Voormann, German illustrator and musician
• 1942 - Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier
• 1944 - Richard Kline, American actor and television director
• 1945 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)
• 1946 - John Waters, American film director and writer
• 1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian philosopher
• 1947 - Tommy James, American musician
• 1947 - Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician
• 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
• 1952 - Nora Dunn, American actress
• 1952 - David Icke, British writer
• 1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
• 1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress
• 1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, Irish actor
• 1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1958 - Eve Plumb, American actress
• 1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
• 1964 - Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor
• 1966 - Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
• 1967 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
• 1967 - Master P, American rapper, composer, actor, athlete, and sports agent
• 1968 - Carnie Wilson, American singer
• 1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress
• 1974 - Pascal Cygan, French footballer
• 1975 - Eric Koston, Thai-born skateboarder
• 1977 - Claus Jensen, Danish footballer
• 1980 - Kian Egan, Irish musician (Westlife)

April 29 - Deaths

• 1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
• 1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
• 1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
• 1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
• 1676 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
• 1688 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
• 1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
• 1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
• 1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
• 1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
• 1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
• 1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (b. 1713)
• 1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
• 1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
• 1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
• 1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
• 1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
• 1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1966 - William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
• 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
• 1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
• 1993 - Mick Ronson, British musician (b. 1946)
• 1997 - Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)
• 2005 - William J. Bell, television writer and producer (b. 1927)

April 29 - Holidays and observances

• Roman Catholic feast days:
  • Saint Catherine of Siena
  • Saint Robert
  • Wilfred the Younger
  • Peter of Verona
  • Hugh of Cluny
• International Dance Day
• Japan - Greenery Day (public holiday, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period)
• Roman Empire - second day of the Floralia in honor of Flora
• Bahá'í Faith - The ninth day of the Festival of Ridván

April 29 - Other

"April 29th 1992 (Miami)" is the title of a song by Sublime on their self-titled album.

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