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Events on the 29th of April in history

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29 Apr 1091 Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
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29 Apr 1091 Battle at Monte Levunium Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes
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29 Apr 1386 Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
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29 Apr 1429 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
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29 Apr 1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to victory over English
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29 Apr 1483 Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
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29 Apr 1521 Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon capture the city of Västerås. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege.
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29 Apr 1522 Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly Inquisitor-Generalof the Netherlands
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29 Apr 1540 Emperor Charles V declares all privileges of Gent ended
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29 Apr 1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
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29 Apr 1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
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29 Apr 1623 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru
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29 Apr 1628 Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
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29 Apr 1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans
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29 Apr 1644 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking
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29 Apr 1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan
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29 Apr 1670 Pope Clemens X elected
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29 Apr 1701 Drenthe Netherlands adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701
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29 Apr 1706 Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria
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29 Apr 1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
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29 Apr 1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time
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29 Apr 1770 James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
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29 Apr 1781 American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
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29 Apr 1781 French fleet occupies Tobago
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29 Apr 1781 French fleet stops Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
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29 Apr 1784 Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
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29 Apr 1793 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall
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29 Apr 1813 Rubber is patented
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29 Apr 1832 Évariste Galois is released from prison.
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29 Apr 1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia
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29 Apr 1845 Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice
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29 Apr 1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
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29 Apr 1853 Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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29 Apr 1856 Peace between England and Russia
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29 Apr 1856 End of Crimean War
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29 Apr 1857 US Army, Pacific Division HQ is permanently established at Presidio (San Francisco)
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29 Apr 1861 American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
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29 Apr 1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
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29 Apr 1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi
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29 Apr 1862 American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
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29 Apr 1862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during Civil War
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29 Apr 1863 Battle of Chancellorville VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)
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29 Apr 1864 Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
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29 Apr 1864 Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry AR begins
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29 Apr 1882 The "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
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29 Apr 1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens
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29 Apr 1888 Old Kavallison, Congo Stanley meet Emin Pasha
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29 Apr 1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
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29 Apr 1894 Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Washington DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
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29 Apr 1901 27th Kentucky Derby Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75
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29 Apr 1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest
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29 Apr 1903 A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
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29 Apr 1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
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29 Apr 1905 2" rain falls in 10 minutes in Taylor, Texas
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29 Apr 1905 Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
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29 Apr 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.
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29 Apr 1910 Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
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29 Apr 1912 108
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29 Apr 1912 Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel", premieres in Berlin
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29 Apr 1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
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29 Apr 1916 Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
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29 Apr 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.
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29 Apr 1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
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29 Apr 1918 Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
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29 Apr 1922 1st official International Weightlifting Federation Champion (Tallinn Estonia)
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29 Apr 1925 Netherlands returns to gold standard
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29 Apr 1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WWI
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29 Apr 1927 Construction of the Spirit of St Louis is completed
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29 Apr 1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
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29 Apr 1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
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29 Apr 1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
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29 Apr 1931 Cleveland Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0
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29 Apr 1934 Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
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29 Apr 1936 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
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29 Apr 1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens
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29 Apr 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS
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29 Apr 1940 Norwegian King Haakon & government flees to England
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29 Apr 1940 Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night", premieres in NYC
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29 Apr 1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in the Netherlands and Vichy-France
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29 Apr 1942 Japanese troops march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road
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29 Apr 1943 Dietrich Bonh
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29 Apr 1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia
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29 Apr 1944 World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
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29 Apr 1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague
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29 Apr 1945 Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies
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29 Apr 1945 The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
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29 Apr 1945 The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
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29 Apr 1945 World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
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29 Apr 1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
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29 Apr 1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
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29 Apr 1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
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29 Apr 1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
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29 Apr 1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
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29 Apr 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.
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29 Apr 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.
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29 Apr 1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
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29 Apr 1948 Bradman scores 107 Australia vs Worcestershire, 152 minutes, 15 fours
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29 Apr 1951 Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
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29 Apr 1953 The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
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29 Apr 1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers
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29 Apr 1955 Giovanni Gronchi elected President of Italy
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29 Apr 1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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29 Apr 1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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29 Apr 1956 WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Apr 1956 WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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29 Apr 1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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29 Apr 1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
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29 Apr 1962 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed win
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29 Apr 1962 16th Tony Awards Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying win
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29 Apr 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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29 Apr 1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT
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29 Apr 1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish Prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma
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29 Apr 1965 Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
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29 Apr 1965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
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29 Apr 1965 Australian government announces it will send troops to Vietnam
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29 Apr 1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
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29 Apr 1967 Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
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29 Apr 1967 After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
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29 Apr 1967 Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
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29 Apr 1968 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
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29 Apr 1968 The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
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29 Apr 1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 performances
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29 Apr 1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
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29 Apr 1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
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29 Apr 1971 Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East
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29 Apr 1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
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29 Apr 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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29 Apr 1973 Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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29 Apr 1974 Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
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29 Apr 1974 President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
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29 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
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29 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
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29 Apr 1975 Flyers 4-Islanders 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
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29 Apr 1975 US Forces pull out of Vietnam
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29 Apr 1975 Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
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29 Apr 1976 Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
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29 Apr 1977 British Aerospace forms
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29 Apr 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
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29 Apr 1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)
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29 Apr 1981 Philadelphia Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters
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29 Apr 1982 Nordiques 2 - Isles 5 - Semifinals - Isles hold 2-0 lead
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29 Apr 1982 Qu
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29 Apr 1982 17th Academy of Country Music Awards Alabama, Barbara Mandrell win
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29 Apr 1982 Alfredo Magana elected President of El Salvador
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29 Apr 1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor
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29 Apr 1984 "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances
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29 Apr 1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic
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29 Apr 1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
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29 Apr 1985 Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 homeruns in a game in both leagues
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29 Apr 1985 Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing championship
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29 Apr 1986 Chernobyl disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
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29 Apr 1986 A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
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29 Apr 1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners
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29 Apr 1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
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29 Apr 1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for the cycle
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29 Apr 1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
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29 Apr 1988 "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols
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29 Apr 1988 Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 losses
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29 Apr 1988 Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry
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29 Apr 1989 2nd government of Lubbers falls
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29 Apr 1990 "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances
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29 Apr 1990 Dan Quisenberry (all-time American League save king, 238) announces his retirement
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29 Apr 1990 STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
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29 Apr 1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
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29 Apr 1991 A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
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29 Apr 1991 "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 performances
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29 Apr 1991 Croatia declares independence
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29 Apr 1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
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29 Apr 1991 Earthquake in Georgia kills 100
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29 Apr 1992 "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
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29 Apr 1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"
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29 Apr 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, 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.
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29 Apr 1992 "March of Falsettos & Falsettoland" premieres at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances
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29 Apr 1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
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29 Apr 1992 27th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks
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29 Apr 1992 Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery
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29 Apr 1992 Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
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29 Apr 1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
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29 Apr 1994 Israel & PLO sign economic accord
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29 Apr 1995 Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV
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29 Apr 1995 Kansas City Royal John Nonely is 70th to homerun on his 1st at bat
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29 Apr 1995 Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario Canada
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29 Apr 1996 "Rent, " opens at Nederlander Theater, New York City
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29 Apr 1996 "Rent", opens at Nederlander Theater NYC
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29 Apr 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno CA on KFRR 104.1 FM
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29 Apr 1997 "Candide, " opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 103 performances
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29 Apr 1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
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29 Apr 1997 Kansas City Royal Chili Davis is 75th to hit 300 homeruns
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29 Apr 1998 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned
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29 Apr 1999 The Avala Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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29 Apr 2004 Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
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29 Apr 2004 Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
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29 Apr 2005 Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.[dubious – discuss]
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29 Apr 2011 The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
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29 Apr 2013 A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
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