29 April History
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.