29 April History


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  • 1289    -    Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captures Tripoli.
  • 1429    -    Joan of Arc leads French forces to victory over English at Orleans.
  • 1624    -    Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council of France.
  • 1661    -    The Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.
  • 1672    -    King Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
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  • 1813    -    Rubber is patented.
  • 1852    -    The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus is published.
  • 1856    -    Yokut Indians repel a second attack by the 'Petticoat Rangers,' a band of civilian Indian fighters at Four Creeks, California.
  • 1858    -    Austrian troops invade Piedmont.
  • 1859    -    As the French army races to support them and the Austrian army mobilizes to oppose them, 150,000 Piedmontese troops invade Piedmontese territory.
  • 1861    -    The Maryland House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union.
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  • 1862    -    Forts Philip and Jackson surrender to Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans.
  • 1913    -    Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper.
  • 1916    -    Irish nationalists surrender to the British in Dublin.
  • 1918    -    America's WWI Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scores his first victory with the help of Captain James Norman Hall.
  • 1924    -    Open revolt breaks out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
  • 1927    -    Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis is completed.
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  • 1930    -    The film All Quiet on the Western Front, based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Im Western Nichts Neues, premiers.
  • 1945    -    The German Army in Italy surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
  • 1945    -    The Nazi concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by Allied troops.
  • 1946    -    Former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
  • 1975    -    The U.S. embassy in Vietnam is evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fight their way into Saigon.
  • 1983    -    Harold Washington is sworn in as Chicago's first black mayor.
  • 1992    -    Four Los Angeles police offices are acquitted of charges stemming from the beating of Rodney King. Rioting ensues.

  • 29 April Birthdays

  • 1745    -    Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 1818    -    Alexander II, Czar of Russia.
  • 1863    -    William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher.
  • 1877    -    Tad Dorgen, cartoonist and columnist.
  • 1879    -    Sir Thomas Beecham, founder of the London Philharmonic.
  • 1899    -    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, renowned jazz composer and musician.
  • 1901    -    Hirohito, emperor of Japan during and after World War II.