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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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 –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.
- 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.
- 1953 –The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
- 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.
- 1968 –The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
- 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.
- 2004 –Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
- 2005 –Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
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