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
- 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).
- 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.
- 1832 –Évariste Galois released from prison.
- 1882 –The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
- 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.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
- 2004 –Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
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