About April 29
April 29, 2021 is the 119th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 278 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 29
- 1483 –Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.
- 1587 –Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
- 1672 –Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
- 1770 –James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
- 1864 –Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
- 2011 –Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
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