About April 29
April 29, 2025 is the 119th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 294 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 29
- 1429 –Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
- 1770 –James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
- 1862 –American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
- 1864 –Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
- 1882 –The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
- 1916 –Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
- 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.
- 1945 –The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
- 1945 –The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
- 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 will commit suicide the next day.
- 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.
- 1951 –Tibetan delegates to the Central People’s Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
- 1965 –Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
- 1967 –After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
- 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.
- 1986 –A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
- 1997 –The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
- 1999 –The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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