Historical Events
- 1864 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga
- 1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising
- 1945 US Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany
- 1975 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war
- 1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
- 1991 Cyclone strikes the Chittagong district in Bangladesh, killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless
- 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories
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Apr 29 in Film & TV
- 1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC radio, longest-running dramatic serial on US radio (ends 1959)
Apr 29 in Music
- 1967 Aretha Franklin releases her single "Respect" (written by Otis Redding); Billboard Song of the Year, 1967
Apr 29 in Sport
- 1922 1st official International Weightlifting Federation Champ in Tallinn, Estonia
James Brooke
Alexander II
Duke Ellington
Hirohito
Willie Nelson
Uma Thurman
Would You Believe?
The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV
On April 29, 1953
Famous Weddings
- 1885 Novelist Edith Wharton (23) weds Edward Robbins Wharton (35)
- 1945 Adolf Hitler (56) marries Eva Braun (33) in the Führerbunker, Berlin
- 1950 American actor Sidney Poitier (23) weds model Juanita Hardy; divorce in 1965
More Weddings
Abraham Gesner
Alfred Hitchcock
John Kenneth Galbraith
Albert HofmannArticles, Photos and Quiz
WR Hearst – The Master of Fake News
Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst was a towering figure of his age. Immensely wealthy, he believed he had unlimited influence, even on matters of war.
April 29, 1863
Battle of Gate Pā
Māori and British troops clash at the pā
April 29, 1864
Rodney King Riots
Damage in Los Angeles after the 1992 riots, which killed 63 people and caused over $1 billion in damages
April 29, 1992
Weekly Quiz for April 27 - May 3
Who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789? What is the name of the world's 1st adhesive stamp? When did Peter Mark Roget 1st publish his Roget's Thesaurus?
