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
     (+ 1951)
   * 1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author (+ 1948)
   * 1893 - Harold Urey, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (+
     1981)
   * 1894 - Paul Hšrbiger (+ 1981)
   * 1899 - Duke Ellington, pianist, bandleader (+ 1974)
   * 1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor (+ 1989)
   * 1907 - Fred Zinnemann, film director (+ 1997)
   * 1909 - Tom Ewell, actor (+ 1994)
   * 1919 - Celeste Holm, actress
   * 1922 - George Allen, American football coach
   * 1929 - Walter Kempowski, author
   * 1931 - Frank Auerbach, painter
   * 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, musician (+ 2002)
   * 1933 - Rod McKuen, poet, composer
   * 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
   * 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer (+ 2001)
   * 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

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