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On this day: April 29th

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801 An 801 Apennine earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.

1091 Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by List of Byzantine emperors Alexios I Komnenos.

1429 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

1483 Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

1521 Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.

1760 French forces commence the Siege of Quebec (1760) which is held by the British.

1770 James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.

1781 American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

1826 The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.

1861 Maryland in the American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.

1862 American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.

1864 Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

1903 A Frank Slide kills 70 people in Frank, Alberta, in the District of Alberta, Canada.

1910 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of Redistribution of wealth among the British public.

1911 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.

1916 World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Empire at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

1916 Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.

1945 World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.

1945 World War II: Operations Manna and Chowhound begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.

1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Führerbunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.

1945 Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.

1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

1952 Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people.

1953 The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of ''Space Patrol (1950 TV series)'' on Los Angeles American Broadcasting Company affiliate KECA-TV.

1967 After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces Cambodian Campaign to hunt Viet Cong.

1974 Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.

1975 Vietnam War: The People's Army of Vietnam completes East Sea Campaign of all parts of South Vietnam-held Spratly Islands.

1986 A fire at the Central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.

1986 The United States Navy aircraft carrier becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the .

1991 A 1991 Bangladesh cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around , killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.

1991 The 7.0 1991 Racha earthquake affects Georgia (country) with a maximum Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale intensity of IX (''Destructive''), killing 270 people.

1992 1992 Los Angeles riots begin, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of Chemical warfare by its signatories.

2004 The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.

2011 The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

2013 A powerful 2013 Prague explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.

2013 National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.

2015 A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.

1469 William II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1509)

1587 Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1635)

1636 Esaias Reusner, German lute player and composer (d. 1679)

1665 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1745)

1667 John Arbuthnot, Scottish-English physician and polymath (d. 1735)

1727 Jean-Georges Noverre, French actor and dancer (d. 1810)

1745 Oliver Ellsworth, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)

1758 Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (d. 1820)

1762 Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (France) (d. 1833)

1780 Charles Nodier, French librarian and author (d. 1844)

1783 David Cox (artist), English landscape painter (d. 1859)

1784 Samuel Turell Armstrong, American publisher and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)

1810 Thomas Adolphus Trollope, English journalist and author (d. 1892)

1818 Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)

1837 Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, Minister of Defence (France) (d. 1891)

1842 Carl Millöcker, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1899)

1847 Joachim Andersen (composer), Danish flautist, composer and conductor (d. 1907)

1848 Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter and academic (d. 1906)

1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist and engineer (d. 1912)

1863 Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek journalist and poet (d. 1933)

1863 William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (d. 1951)

1863 Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Austrian nun and missionary (d. 1922)

1872 Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and lawyer (d. 1930)

1872 Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic (d. 1952)

1875 Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (d. 1950)

1879 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)

1880 Adolf Chybiński, Polish historian, musicologist and academic (d. 1952)

1882 Auguste Herbin, French painter (d. 1960)

1882 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer, typographer, and Dutch Resistance (d. 1945)

1885 Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948)

1887 Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist (d. 1973)

1888 Michael Heidelberger, American immunologist (d. 1991)

1891 Edward Wilfred Taylor, British businessman (d. 1980)

1893 Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1981)

1894 Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic (d. 1970)

1895 Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic (d. 1970)

1895 Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer and conductor (d. 1967)

1898 E. J. Bowen, British physical chemist (d. 1980)

1899 Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1974)

1899 Mary Petty, American illustrator (d. 1976)

1900 Amelia Best, Australian politician (d. 1979)

1901 Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989)

1907 Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (d. 1997)

1908 Jack Williamson, American author and academic (d. 2006)

1909 Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)

1912 Richard Carlson (actor), American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1915 Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist and academic (d. 1997)

1917 Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American director, poet, and photographer (d. 1961)

1917 Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (d. 2012)

1918 George Allen (American football coach), American football player and coach (d. 1990)

1919 Gérard Oury, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1920 Edward Blishen, English author and radio host (d. 1996)

1920 Harold Shapero, American composer (d. 2013)

1922 Parren Mitchell, American politician (d. 2007)

1922 Toots Thielemans, Belgian guitarist and harmonica player (d. 2016)

1923 Irvin Kershner, American actor, director and producer (d. 2010)

1924 Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress (d. 2020)

1925 John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)

1925 Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (d. 2007)

1926 Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (d. 2009)

1927 Dorothy Manley, English sprinter (d. 2021)

1927 Bill Slater (footballer), English footballer (d. 2018)

1928 Carl Gardner, American singer (d. 2011)

1928 Heinz Wolff, German-English physiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2017)

1929 Walter Kempowski, German author and academic (d. 2007)

1929 Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2014)

1929 April Stevens, American singer (d. 2023)

1929 Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (d. 2015)

1929 Jeremy Thorpe, English lawyer and politician (d. 2014)

1930 Jean Rochefort, French actor and director (d. 2017)

1931 Frank Auerbach, British-German painter

1931 Lonnie Donegan, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)

1931 Chris Pearson (politician), Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Yukon (d. 2014)

1932 David Tindle, English painter and educator

1932 Dmitry Zaikin, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut instructor (d. 2013)

1933 Ed Charles, American baseball player and coach (d. 2018)

1933 Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2015)

1933 Willie Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor

1934 Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan-American baseball player

1934 Pedro Pires, Cape Verdean politician, 3rd President of Cape Verde

1935 Otis Rush, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)

1936 Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor

1936 Adolfo Nicolás, Spanish priest, 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 2020)

1936 Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (d. 1972)

1936 Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, English banker and philanthropist (d. 2024)

1937 Jill Paton Walsh, English author (d. 2020)

1938 Steven Bach, American writer, businessman and educator (d. 2009)

1938 Bernie Madoff, American businessman, financier and convicted felon (d. 2021)

1939 Klaus Rinke, German contemporary artist

1940 George Adams (musician), American musician (d. 1992)

1940 Peter Diamond, American economist

1941 Hanne Darboven, German painter (d. 2009)

1942 Dick Chrysler, American politician

1942 Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, English civil servant and academic

1943 Duane Allen, American country singer

1943 Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, English union leader and politician (d. 2018)

1943 Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, English lawyer and academic

1944 Francis Lee (footballer), English footballer and businessman (d. 2023)

1945 Hugh Hopper, English bass guitarist (d. 2009)

1945 Catherine Lara, French singer-songwriter and violinist

1945 Tammi Terrell, American soul singer-songwriter (d. 1970)

1946 Rodney Frelinghuysen, American politician and lobbyist

1947 Tommy James, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer

1947 Johnny Miller, American golfer and sportscaster

1947 Jim Ryun, American runner and politician

1948 Edith Brown Clement, American judge

1950 Paul Holmes (broadcaster), New Zealand journalist (d. 2013)

1950 Phillip Noyce, Australian director and producer

1950 Debbie Stabenow, American social worker and politician

1951 Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)

1951 Jon Stanhope, Australian politician

1952 Geraldine Doogue, Australian journalist and television host

1952 Nora Dunn, American actress and comedian

1952 Bob McClure, American baseball player and coach

1952 Dave Valentin, American flautist (d. 2017)

1953 Bill Drummond, British musician

1954 Mo Brooks, American attorney and politician

1954 Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian, actor and producer

1955 Leslie Jordan, American actor, comedian, writer and singer (d. 2022)

1955 Kate Mulgrew, American actress

1957 Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor

1957 Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Samoan politician, 7th Prime Minister of Samoa

1957 Joseph Morelle, American politician

1958 Kevin Moore (footballer, born 1958), English footballer (d. 2013)

1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress

1958 Eve Plumb, American actress

1960 Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian author and academic

1962 Polly Samson, English novelist, lyricist and journalist

1963 Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1964 Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor, director, producer and screenwriter

1965 Michel Bussi, French geographer, author, and academic

1965 Amy Krouse Rosenthal, American author (d. 2017)

1966 Christian Tetzlaff, German violinist

1968 Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatian politician and diplomat, 4th President of Croatia

1969 Paul Adelstein, American actor and writer

1970 Andre Agassi, American tennis player

1970 Uma Thurman, American actress

1975 Garrison Starr, American singer-songwriter and producer

1975 April Telek, Canadian actress

1976 Micol Ostow, American author, editor and educator

1976 God Shammgod, American basketball player and coach

1977 Zuzana Hejdová, Czech tennis player

1977 Claus Jensen, Danish international footballer and manager

1977 David Sullivan (actor), American film and television actor

1978 Bob Bryan, American tennis player

1978 Mike Bryan, American tennis player

1978 Javier Colon, American singer-songwriter and musician

1978 Tyler Labine, Canadian actor and comedian

1979 Lee Dong-gook, South Korean footballer

1979 Jo O'Meara, English pop singer

1980 Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player

1980 Bre Blair, Canadian actress

1981 George McCartney (footballer), Northern Irish footballer

1983 Megan Boone, American actress

1983 Jay Cutler, American football player

1983 Sam Jones III, American actor

1984 Kirby Cote, Canadian swimmer

1984 Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player

1986 Byun Yo-han, South Korean actor

1986 Lee Chae-young, South Korean actress

1987 Rob Atkinson, English footballer

1987 Sara Errani, Italian tennis player

1987 Andre Russell, Jamaican cricketer

1988 Alfred Hui, Hong Kong singer

1988 Taoufik Makhloufi, Algerian athlete

1988 Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player

1988 Younha, South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer

1989 Candace Owens, American political commentator and activist

1990 James Faulkner (cricketer), Australian cricketer

1990 Chris Johnson (basketball, born 1990), American basketball player

1991 Adam Smith (footballer, born 1991), English footballer

1991 Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress

1991 Misaki Doi, Japanese tennis player

1992 Alina Rosenberg, German paralympic equestrian

1994 Christina Shakovets, German tennis player

1996 Katherine Langford, Australian actress

1998 Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player

1998 Mallory Pugh, American soccer player

2002 Sinja Kraus, Austrian tennis player

2007 Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess

1109 Hugh of Cluny, French abbot (b. 1024)

1380 Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher and saint (b. 1347)

1594 Thomas Cooper (bishop), English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (b. 1517)

1630 Agrippa d'Aubigné, French soldier and poet (b. 1552)

1658 John Cleveland, English poet and author (b. 1613)

1676 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)

1707 George Farquhar, Irish-English actor and playwright (b. 1678)

1768 Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694)

1776 Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller), English explorer and author (b. 1713)

1833 William Babington (physician), Anglo-Irish physician and Mineralogy (b. 1756)

1848 Chester Ashley, American politician (b. 1790)

1854 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)

1903 Godfrey Carter, Australian businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of Melbourne (b. 1830)

1903 Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)

1905 Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)

1916 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)

1917 Florence Farr, British actress, composer and director (b. 1860)

1922 Richard Croker, Irish American political boss (b. 1843)

1924 Ernest Fox Nichols, American educator and physicist (b. 1869)

1925 Ralph Delahaye Paine, American journalist and author (b. 1871)

1933 Clay Stone Briggs, American politician (b. 1876)

1933 Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)

1935 Leroy Carr, American singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)

1937 William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)

1943 Joseph Achron, Russian composer and violinist (b. 1886)

1943 Ricardo Viñes, Spanish pianist (b. 1875)

1944 Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (b. 1872)

1944 Pyotr Stolyarsky, Soviet violinist (b. 1871)

1947 Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)

1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)

1956 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)

1959 Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer), English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891)

1966 William Eccles (physicist), English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)

1966 Paula Strasberg, American actress and acting coach (b. 1909)

1967 J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)

1968 Aasa Helgesen, Norwegian midwife (b. 1877)

1968 Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident (b. 1932)

1978 Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)

1979 Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)

1979 Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)

1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)

1982 Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer and screenwriter (b. 1907)

1992 Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)

1993 Michael Gordon (film director), American actor and director (b. 1909)

1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter and producer (b. 1946)

1997 Mike Royko, American journalist and author (b. 1932)

2000 Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)

2001 Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., American physicist and academic (b. 1936)

2002 Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (b. 1936)

2003 Janko Bobetko, Croatian Army general and Chief of the General Staff (b. 1919)

2004 John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, British diplomat and civil servant (b. 1916)

2005 William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)

2005 Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)

2006 John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (b. 1908)

2007 Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)

2007 Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (b. 1940)

2007 Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)

2008 Gordon Bradley, English-American footballer (b. 1933)

2008 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1906)

2010 Avigdor Arikha, French-Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian (b. 1929)

2011 Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)

2011 Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (b. 1937)

2012 Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)

2012 Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1957)

2012 Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (b. 1945)

2012 Kenny Roberts (musician), American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)

2013 Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)

2013 Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Israel) (b. 1924)

2013 John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)

2013 Kevin Moore (footballer, born 1958), English footballer (b. 1958)

2013 Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990)

2014 Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (b. 1966)

2014 Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)

2014 Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942)

2015 François Michelin, French businessman (b. 1926)

2015 Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded WW International (b. 1923)

2015 Calvin Peete, American golfer (b. 1943)

2015 Dan Walker (politician), American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (b. 1922)

2016 Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1948)

2017 R. Vidyasagar Rao, Indian bureaucrat and activist (b. 1939)

2018 Luis García Meza, Bolivian general, 57th President of Bolivia (b. 1929)

2018 Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, British politician (b. 1945)

2019 Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990)

2020 Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (b. 1967)

2020 Guido Münch, Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1921)

2021 Cate Haste, English author (b. 1945)

2022 Joanna Barnes, American actress and writer (b. 1934)

2023 Padma Desai, Indian-American development economist (b. 1931)

Christian Calendar of saints:

- Catherine of Siena (Catholicism, Lutheran and Anglicanism)

- Hugh of Cluny

- Robert of Molesme

- Wilfrid II (bishop of York)

- April 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare (United Nations)

International Dance Day (UNESCO)

Shōwa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week (Japan) holiday period, which is April 29 and May 3–5. (Japan)

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[https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/29 Historical Events on April 29]