April 29
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April 29 is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining after April 29 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1818 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
- 1854 – Henri Poincare, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
- 1863 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933)
- 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American media tycoon (d. 1951)
- 1876 – Zauditu, Empress of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
- 1893 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (d. 1981)
- 1895 – Malcolm Sargent, British conductor (d. 1967)
- 1899 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
- 1923 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (d. 2010)
- 1925 – John Compton, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Paul Baran, American computer pioneer (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Pedro Pires, President of Cape Verde
- 1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
- 1938 – Bernard Madoff, American financier and convict
- 1944 – Hermann Scheer, German politician (d. 2010)
- 1944 – Princess Benedikte of Denmark
- 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (d. 2001)
- 1952 – David Icke, British author, and former footballer and journalist
- 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
- 1955 – Kate Mulgrew, American actress
- 1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
- 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
- 1966 – Phil Tufnell, English cricketer
- 1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
- 1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
- 1972 – Marko Rehmer, German footballer
- 1978 – Bob Bryan, American tennis player
- 1978 – Mike Bryan, American tennis player
- 1979 – Jo O'Meara, English singer (S Club)
- 1980 – Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
- 1988 – Jonathan Toews, NHL ice hockey centre for the Chicago Blackhawks
- 1988 – Younha, South Korean singer
[change] Deaths
- 1380 – Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
- 1707 – George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
- 1933 – Constantine Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
- 1937 – William Gillette, actor (b. 1853)
- 1944 – Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
- 1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1957 – Belle Baker, American 1920s torch singer, film & television actress, (b. 1893)
- 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
- 1997 – Mike Royko, columnist (b. 1932)
- 2005 – William J. Bell, soap opera creator, writer, producer (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Ivica Racan, Croatian Prime Minister (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss physicist (b. 1906)
[change] 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 begins as the first college for African American students.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to split 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, is shown for the first time.
- 1945 – World War II: The German Army in Italy surrenders (gives up) to the Allies.
- 1945 – Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and decides that Admiral Karl Dönitz will be the next ruler.
- 1945 – Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is freed by United States troops.
- 1946 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are accused of war crimes.
- 1967 – After refusing to go into the United States Army the day before (because of 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 go into Cambodia to hunt NLF soldiers.
- 1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited word copies of White House tape recordings that deal with the scandal.
- 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin to leave Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States part in the war comes to an end.
- 1991 – Bangladesh is hit by a cyclone, killing at least 138,000 people.
- 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, follow the release of police officers charged with too much strength and 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, and makes the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons illegal.
- 2002 – The United States is re-elected (chosen again) to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
- 2011 – Prince William, Duke of Cambridge marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
