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1289Apr 29Qala’un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.
1429Apr 29Joan of Arc led French troops to victory over the English at Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War. Legend has it that King Charles VII of France had a suit of armor made for Joan at a cost of 100 war horses. In 1996 a suit of armor was found and proposed to be Joan’s armor.
1522Apr 29Emperor Charles V named Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands.
1535Apr 29John Houghton, English, was executed.
1550Apr 29Emperor Charles V gave inquisitors additional authority.
1553Apr 29A Flemish woman introduced to England the practice of starching linen.
1584Apr 29Melchior Teschner, composer, was born.
1623Apr 2911 Dutch ships departed for the conquest of Peru.
1624Apr 29Louis XIII appointed Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
1636Apr 29Esaias Reusner, composer, was born.
1661Apr 29Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.
1667Apr 29John Arbuthnot (d.1735), Scottish mathematician, was born. With Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and Thomas Parnell he founded the Scriblerus Club in 1714, whose purpose was to satirize bad poetry and pedantry. The club was short-lived.
1672Apr 29King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands.
1676Apr 29Michiel A. de Ruyter (69), Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), was killed.
1707Apr 29English-Scottish parliament accepted Act of Union and formed Great Britain.
1727Apr 29Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, choreographer (ballet d’action), was born.
1745Apr 29Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born.
1769Apr 29The Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) was born.
1771Apr 29Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (b.1700), Italian architect, died in St. Petersburg. He was born in Paris and spent his entire career in Russia. His work included the Winter Palace (1754-1762) in St. Petersburg, which later became the Hermitage Museum.
1781Apr 29French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope.
1783Apr 29David Cox (d.1857), English watercolorist, was born. He books included “Treatise on Landscape Painting” (1813).
1784Apr 29Premiere of Mozart’s Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna).
1813Apr 29Rubber was patented.
1834Apr 29Charles Darwin’s expedition saw the top of Andes from Patagonia.
1842Apr 29Karl Millocker, conductor, composer (Beggar Student), was born in Austria.
1852Apr 29The first edition of Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus was published. Roget (1779-1869) was a London physician of French-Swiss ancestry who began to collect and organize English words to improve his public speaking.
1854Apr 29Henri Poincare (1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, was born. He investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too complex for mathematics. Rather space is an assumption, and it can be described and controlled only so far as we assume it. In other words there is no such thing as space. Instead, there are as many spaces as there are people… for every person can assume an indefinite number of different spaces.
1855Apr 29Anatol K. Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS], was born.
1856Apr 29A peace treaty between England and Russia was signed.
1858Apr 29Austrian troops invaded Piedmont (Italy).
1859Apr 29In the Italian Campaign some 150,000 Piedmontese troops invaded Piedmontese territory as the French army raced to support them and the Austrian army mobilized to oppose them.
1860Apr 29Lorado Taft, US sculptor (Black Hawk), was born.
1861Apr 29The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
1862Apr 29Forts Philip and Jackson surrendered to Union forces under Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans.
1863Apr 29William Randolph Hearst (d.1951), American newspaper publisher, was born. He helped launch the Spanish-American War. “Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.” In 1998 Ben Proctor authored “William Randolph Hearst ”“ The Early Years, 1863-1910.”
1868Apr 29The US government and the Sioux Indians signed another treaty that ended Red Cloud’s War, but it did not last long. The treaty at Fort Laramie (Wyoming) made the Black Hills part of the Great Sioux Reservation.
1877Apr 29Tad Dorgen, cartoonist and columnist, was born.
1879Apr 29Sir Thomas Beecham, founder of London Philharmonic, was born.
1893Apr 29Harold C. Urey, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), was born in Indiana.
1894Apr 29The Commonweal of Christ, called Coxey’s Army, arrived in Wash, DC, 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey was arrested for trespassing at Capitol.
1895Apr 29Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts), was born.
1899Apr 29Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (d.1974), jazz composer and musician was born in Washington DC.
1901Apr 29Anti Semitic riot took place in Budapest.
1907Apr 29Fred Zinnemann (d.3/14/97), Hollywood film director, was born in Vienna. His films included “A Hatful of Rain,” “The Sundowners,” “The Nun’s Story,” “From Here to Eternity,” “Julia” and “A Man for All Seasons” (1966) with Paul Scofield.
1909Apr 29Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch), was born in Ky.
1912Apr 29Henri Poincare (d.1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, died. He investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too complex for mathematics. In 2002 Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman solved the 1904 Poincare Conjecture. In 2007 Donal O’Shea authored “The Poincare Conjecture.”
1913Apr 29Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patented an all-purpose zipper. The name was coined by B.F. Goodrich, who used it to fasten rubber galoshes.
1916Apr 29The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities. Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin during Easter Uprising.
1918Apr 29America’s WWI Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scored his first victory with the help of Captain James Norman Hall. He eventually racked up 26 victories before the end of the war.
1919Apr 29A parcel bomb aimed at US Senator Thomas Hardwick and designed to explode on May day, exploded unsuccessfully. It was one of nearly 30 devices sent by anarchist groups to politicians, judges and businessmen.
1922Apr 29A 100-mile-long battle raged near Peking, China.
1924Apr 29Open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
1927Apr 29Construction of the Spirit of St Louis was completed. B.F. Mahoney was the ”˜mystery man’ behind the Ryan Aeronautical Company that built Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Engineer Donald Hall designed the $10,580 plane to carry 400 gallons of fuel.
1930Apr 29Telephone connection England-Australia went into service.
1933Apr 29Constantine Cavafy (b.1863), Greek poet, died in Alexandria, Egypt. The 1996 Greek film “Cavafy” was a profile of the Greek homosexual poet, and a winner of Greece’s National Film Award for best feature of the year. Cavafy spent 30 years working as a clerk in the Ministry of Irrigation. In 2006 “The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy,” translated by Aliki Barstone, was published.
1935Apr 29It was reported that live rabbits were being sewn onto dog-track racing machines in the San Francisco Bay Area counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara.
1936Apr 29Zubin Mehta, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1976), was born in Bombay, India.
1939Apr 29Whitestone Bridge, connecting Bronx and Queens, opened.
1940Apr 29Robert Sherwood’s “There Shall be No Night,” premiered in NYC.
1942Apr 29Japanese troops marched into Lashio and cut off the Burma Road.
1943Apr 29Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter,” premiered in London.
1945Apr 29American soldiers liberated 31,601 in the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun (b.1912) and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz his successor. Hitler and Braun committed suicide the next day. In 2011 Heike B. Gortemaker authored “Eva Braun: Life With Hitler.”
1946Apr 29In Japan 28 former leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.
1947Apr 29Irving Fisher (b.1867), American economist, died. His Fisher hypothesis is the proposition that the real interest rate is independent of monetary measures, especially the nominal interest rate.
1951Apr 29Ludwig Wittgenstein (b.1889), Austrian-born philosopher, died in Cambridge, England. His “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicos” (1921) purported to address all of philosophy’s major problems. His posthumous work was edited by Elizabeth Uncombed (d.2001), and included his “Philosophical Investigations” (1953).
1954Apr 29India’s Jawaharla Nehru and China’s Zhou Enlai signed the “Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.” In India this became known as the as the as the Panchsheel Treaty. It entered into force on June 3.
1957Apr 29The 1st military nuclear power plant was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.
1958Apr 29Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, was born in Midway City, Calif.
1959Apr 29Premier Castro denied any Cuban role, direct or indirect, in a Panamanian invasion.
1961Apr 29ABC’s “Wide World of Sports made its debut.
1962Apr 29In the 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
1965Apr 29Seattle experienced an earthquake. 7 people were killed and damage was estimated at $12.5 million.
1968Apr 29The counterculture musical “Hair” opened on Broadway following limited engagements off-Broadway.
1970Apr 29Andre Agassi, tennis star and winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1996, was born in Las Vegas, Nev.
1974Apr 29President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1977Apr 29Donald Evans (b.1945), American artist, died in a fire in the Netherlands. His work included the creation of postage stamp series for imaginary countries.
1979Apr 29Democracy was restored in Ecuador. Jaime Roldos Aguilera was elected as president in a 2nd round of voting. He was killed in plane crash in 1981.
1980Apr 29Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (b.1899), British director (Psycho, Birds), died in Los Angeles.
1981Apr 29Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe (b.1946) admitted in a London court to being the “Yorkshire Ripper,” the killer of 13 women in northern England during a five-year period. He was convicted on May 22 and sentenced to serve a minimum of 30 years.
1982Apr 29Alfredo Magana was elected president of El Salvador.
1983Apr 29Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.
1986Apr 29Some 350,000 books were damaged by fire and water in the LA Central Library.
1988Apr 29Molloko, the 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity, was born in the San Diego Zoo.
1989Apr 29In a sign that student demonstrators in Beijing had gained influence, China’s government conducted informal talks with leaders of the democracy protests, and then televised the discussions.
1990Apr 29The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a mission which included deploying the Hubble Space Telescope.
1991Apr 29US troops continued airlifting Iraqi refugees from a camp in southern Iraq to Saudi Arabia.
1992Apr 29“Falsettos” opened at John Golden Theater in NYC for 487 performances.
1993Apr 29Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II announced that, for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle.
1994Apr 29Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1995Apr 2910 days after the blast, rescue workers in Oklahoma City continued the grim task of searching for bodies and pulling debris from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where 168 people died.
1996Apr 29“Rent” opened at Nederlander Theater in NYC.
1997Apr 29The Global Anti-Golf Movement, GAG’M, proclaimed a World No-Golf Day.
1998Apr 29The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1999Apr 29Rev. Jesse Jackson and a delegation of religious leaders arrived in Belgrade to talk with Pres. Milosevic concerning the release of 3 captured Americans.
2000Apr 29Lennox Lewis knocked out Michael Grant in the second round at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
2001Apr 29Nasa scientists reported that they had contacted the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched in 1972, after 8 months of no communication.
2002Apr 29A year after the loss of a seat it had held for over 50 years, the United States won election to the UN Human Rights Commission.
2003Apr 29Pres. Bush embraced a plan for a $15 billion AIDS initiative that included money for groups that promote birth control and abortion.
2004Apr 29The US Sep 11 panel held a joint interview behind closed doors with Pres. Bush and VP Cheney.
2005Apr 29NASA again delayed the first space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster, worrying that ice falling off fuel tank could doom Discovery.
2005Apr 29Sri Lanka’s government ordered a “full-scale investigation” into the slaying of a senior Tamil journalist who was abducted overnight as he left a restaurant.
2007Apr 29In Kansas City, Mo., David W. Logsdon, driving a dead woman’s car, was shot and killed by police after he killed 2 people in the parking lot of a mall.
2008Apr 29Sen. Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, angrily repudiated Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, for his recent remarks on race and US foreign policy.
2009Apr 29The Obama administration joined a federal judge in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine.
2010Apr 29The US Navy said the first US women allowed to serve aboard submarines will be reporting for duty by 2012.
2011Apr 29The US Federal Transit Administration determined that New Jersey must repay the federal government the entire $271 million it spent on early design and engineering work for a New Jersey – New York train tunnel that was scrapped by Gov. Chris Christie.
2012Apr 29In NYC an out of control SUV flew off an elevated portion of the Bronx River Parkway, falling more than 50 feet before landing in a horrific crash that left seven people dead.
2013Apr 29Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation allowing immigrant students to pay at the tuition rate other in-state students pay at state colleges. Colorado became the 14th state to allow such payments.
2014Apr 29Washington’s deadline for reaching a peace deal between Israel and Palestine expired today with the sides bitterly divided.
Source: Timelines of History Â     

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