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What happend on 29. April in History
In our data base we found 329 events happened on 29. April:
• 711: Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). [category: Events]
• 926: Burchard II, Duke of Swabia [category: Deaths]
• 1091: Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. [category: Events]
• 1380: Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347) [category: Deaths]
• 1429: Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. [category: Events]
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• 1483: Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile. [category: Events]
• 1587: Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet. [category: Events]
• 1594: Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer [category: Deaths]
• 1630: Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
• 1636: Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer (d. 1679) [category: Births]
• 1658: John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613) [category: Deaths]
• 1665: James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1745) [category: Births]
• 1667: John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735) [category: Births]
• 1672: Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands. [category: Events]
• 1676: Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607) [category: Deaths]
• 1686: Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1742) [category: Births]
• 1688: Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620) [category: Deaths]
• 1698: Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655) [category: Deaths]
• 1707: George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1727: Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, founder of modern ballet (d. 1810) [category: Births]
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• 1743: Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) [category: Deaths]
• 1745: Oliver Ellsworth, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807) [category: Births]
• 1758: Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish lieutenant general (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1762: Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833) [category: Births]
• 1768: Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1694) [category: Deaths]
• 1769: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852) [category: Births]
• 1770: James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia. [category: Events]
• 1771: Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-Russian architect (b. 1700) [category: Deaths]
• 1776: Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1780: Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1781: American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique. [category: Events]
• 1782: Richard Kempenfelt, English admiral (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1784: Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1793: John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1798: Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1810: Thomas Adolphus Trollope, English author and journalist (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1818: Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1832: Évariste Galois is released from prison. [category: Events]
• 1837: Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1842: Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899) [category: Births]
• 1848: Raja Ravi Varma,Indian painter (d.1906) [category: Births]
• 1854: Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1854: Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, British general (b. 1768) [category: Deaths]
• 1861: American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. [category: Events]
• 1862: American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut. [category: Events]
• 1863: Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1863: Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1863: William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1864: Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1868: Alice Keppel, English socialite and mistress of King Edward VII (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1872: Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman, lawyer and horse-breeder (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1875: Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English writer (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1876: Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1879: Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1882: Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1882: The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1885: Egon Erwin Kisch, Czech journalist and author (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1887: Raymond Thorne, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1893: Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1895: Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1899: Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1899: Duke Ellington, American composer, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1899: Mary Petty, American illustrator [category: Births]
• 1901: Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1903: Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada. [category: Events]
• 1905: Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1907: Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1908: Jack Williamson, American writer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1909: Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1910: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. [category: Events]
• 1912: Richard Carlson, American actor (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1915: Donald Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1916: Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: The O'Rahilly, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin. [category: Events]
• 1916: World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point. [category: Events]
• 1917: Celeste Holm, American actress (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1917: Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1917: Maya Deren, Ukraine-American filmmaker, writer, and photographer (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1918: George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1919: Gérard Oury, French actor and director (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1919: Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and scientist [category: Births]
• 1920: Edward Blishen, English author (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1920: Harold Shapero, American composer [category: Births]
• 1920: William Henry Seward, Jr., American Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1922: Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1924: Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1924: Zizi Jeanmaire, French dancer and actress [category: Births]
• 1925: Iwao Takamoto, American animator, producer and director (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1925: John Compton, Saint Lucian politician, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1925: Ned Austin, American actor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1926: Elmer Kelton, American novelist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1928: Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1929: Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1929: Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer [category: Births]
• 1929: Ray Barretto, American jazz musician (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1929: Walter Kempowski, German author (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1930: Jean Rochefort, French actor [category: Births]
• 1931: Frank Auerbach, German-English painter [category: Births]
• 1931: Lonnie Donegan, English singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1932: Joy Clements, American soprano (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1933: Mark Eyskens, Belgian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Belgium [category: Births]
• 1933: Rod McKuen, American poet and composer [category: Births]
• 1933: Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Bill Vander Zalm, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1934: Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1934: Otis Rush, American singer and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1934: Pedro Pires, Portuguese politician, 3rd President of Cape Verde [category: Births]
• 1935: Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Adolfo Nicolás, Spanish priest [category: Births]
• 1936: April Stevens, American singer (Nino Tempo & April Stevens) [category: Births]
• 1936: Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1936: Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor [category: Births]
• 1937: Hasil Adkins, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1937: Jill Paton Walsh, English writer [category: Births]
• 1937: William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Bernard Madoff, American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier [category: Births]
• 1938: Fred Dibnah, English steeplejack (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1938: Klaus Voormann, German artist, musician, and producer (Manfred Mann and Plastic Ono Band) [category: Births]
• 1941: Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, music critic and composer (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier [category: Births]
• 1944: Francis Lee, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1944: Princess Benedikte of Denmark [category: Births]
• 1944: Richard Kline, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1944: Bernardino Machado, Portuguese Politician, President of Portugal (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Catherine Lara, French singer, musician and composer [category: Births]
• 1945: Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1945: Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops. [category: Events]
• 1945: The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: Start of Operation Manna. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. [category: Events]
• 1946: Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1947: Jim Ryun, American athlete and politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Joey Levine, American singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1947: Serge Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1947: Tommy James, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tommy James and the Shondells) [category: Births]
• 1947: Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Bruce Cutler, American attorney [category: Births]
• 1948: Michael Karoli, German musician and composer (Can) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1949: Anita Dobson, English actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1950: Debbie Stabenow, American politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Phillip Noyce, Australian director [category: Births]
• 1951: Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1951: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy. [category: Events]
• 1952: Bob McClure, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1952: David Icke, English writer [category: Births]
• 1952: Nora Dunn, American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Rob Nicholson, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Ron Washington, American baseball manager [category: Births]
• 1953: The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. [category: Events]
• 1954: Jake Burton Carpenter, American snowboarder [category: Births]
• 1954: Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1955: Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone [category: Births]
• 1955: Kate Mulgrew, American actress [category: Births]
• 1955: Leslie Jordan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Richard Epcar, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Wendee Lee, American voice actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Ketil Stokkan, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Zoo) [category: Births]
• 1956: Sofia Sakorafa, Greek javelin thrower and politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Harold Bride, British junior wireless officer on RMS Titanic (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Daniel Day-Lewis, English-Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Mark Kendall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Great White) [category: Births]
• 1957: Timothy Treadwell, American ecologist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1958: Eve Plumb, American actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Gary Cohen, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1958: Martin Whitmarsh, English businessman [category: Births]
• 1958: Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1960: Caveh Zahedi, American director and actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Phil King, English musician (Lush and The Jesus and Mary Chain) [category: Births]
• 1960: Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer [category: Births]
• 1961: Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Bruce Driver, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1962: Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1963: Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey coach [category: Births]
• 1964: Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Melody Barnes, American director of the White House Domestic Policy Council [category: Births]
• 1964: Mohammad Qatanani, American Imam [category: Births]
• 1964: Radek Jaroš, Czech mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1965: Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. [category: Events]
• 1966: Marie Plourde, Canadian journalist, television host, and columnist [category: Births]
• 1966: Phil Tufnell, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1966: William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1967: Master P, American rapper, producer, and actor (TRU and 504 Boyz) [category: Births]
• 1967: Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. [category: Events]
• 1968: Carnie Wilson, American singer (Wilson Phillips) [category: Births]
• 1968: The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway. [category: Events]
• 1969: Paul Adelstein, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: İzel Çeliköz, Turkish singer [category: Births]
• 1970: Andre Agassi, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1970: China Forbes, American singer-songwriter (Pink Martini) [category: Births]
• 1970: Uma Thurman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. [category: Events]
• 1971: Sam Michael, Australian sporting director and engineer [category: Births]
• 1971: Tamara Johnson-George, American singer (SWV) [category: Births]
• 1972: Dustin McDaniel, American politician [category: Births]
• 1973: David Belle, French educator [category: Births]
• 1973: Johan Hegg, Swedish singer (Amon Amarth) [category: Births]
• 1973: Martin Kesici, German singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1974: Anggun, Indonesian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1974: Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist [category: Births]
• 1974: Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1974: Pascal Cygan, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. [category: Events]
• 1975: Artem Yashkin, Ukrainian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Béres Zoo, Hungarian disk jokey [category: Births]
• 1975: Eric Koston, Thai-American skateboarder [category: Births]
• 1975: Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. [category: Events]
• 1976: Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and producer [category: Births]
• 1977: Claus Jensen, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: David Sullivan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Rocío Carrasco, Spanish television presenter and businesswoman [category: Births]
• 1977: Thaddeus Bullard, American wrestler and football player [category: Births]
• 1977: Zuzana Hejdová, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1978: Bob Bryan, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1978: Craig Gower, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Mike Bryan, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1978: Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Ashish Nehra, Indian Cricket Player [category: Births]
• 1979: Jo O'Meara, English singer-songwriter and actress (S Club and 2-4 Family) [category: Births]
• 1979: Lee Dong-Gook, Korean footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Matt Tong, English drummer (Bloc Party) [category: Births]
• 1979: Nihan Anaz, Turkish basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Ryan Sharp, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Sam Jones III, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Kian Egan, Irish singer-songwriter and musician (Westlife) [category: Births]
• 1980: Luciano Milo, Italian ice dancer [category: Births]
• 1980: Magdalena Tul, Polish singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1980: Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Alfred Hitchcock, English director (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Alex Vincent, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: George McCartney, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Lisa Allen, British chef [category: Births]
• 1981: Émilie Mondor, Canadian athlete (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1982: Aksana, Lithuanian model, bodybuilder, and wrestler [category: Births]
• 1982: Kate Nauta, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Mersad Selimbegović, Bosnian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Travis Smith, American drummer (Trivium) [category: Births]
• 1982: Raymond Bussières, French actor (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: David Lee, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jay Cutler, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Semih Şentürk, Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Tommie Harris, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese model, artist, and actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Firass Dirani, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Phạm Văn Quyến, Vietnamese footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Taylor Cole, American actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Vasilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Jean-François Jacques, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1986: Renee Alway, American model [category: Births]
• 1986: A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. [category: Events]
• 1987: Alicia Morton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Knut Børsheim, Norwegian golfer [category: Births]
• 1987: Sara Errani, Italian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1988: Elías Hernández, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1988: Jovan Leacock, American footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Julian Reus, German sprinter [category: Births]
• 1988: Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1988: James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Charlotte Francis, English actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Domagoj Vida, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Oviya, Indian model and actress [category: Births]
• 1991: A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. [category: Events]
• 1992: Emilio Orozco, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1992: Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. [category: Events]
• 1993: Michael Gordon, American director (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Mick Ronson, English musician, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople) (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Christina Shakovets, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1994: Madeleine Budd, French actress [category: Births]
• 1997: Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. [category: Events]
• 1998: Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. [category: Events]
• 2000: Pham Van Dong, Vietnamese politician (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American solar physicist (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. [category: Events]
• 2004: Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production. [category: Events]
• 2005: John D'Amico, Canadian supervisor of officials of the National Hockey League (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Louis Leithold, American mathematician (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television host (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Sara Henderson, Australian pastoralist and author (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: William J. Bell, American writer and producer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. [category: Events]
• 2006: John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: A.S. Douglas, English computer scientist, creator of the first graphical computer game (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Siamak Pourzand, Iranian dissident journalist (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton. [category: Events]
• _: April 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Catherine of Siena [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Endelienta (Roman Catholic and Anglican Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hugh of Cluny [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Dance Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Queen's Night (the Netherlands) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Robert of Molesme [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Shōwa Day, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period. (Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The beginning of Arita Ceramic Fair (Arita, Saga, Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The ninth day of Ridván (Bahá'í Faith) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Torpes of Pisa [category: Holidays and observances]