What are the important events that happened on April 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 29: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 29 is the 120th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 16, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,572,480 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosagon’ day.
Taurus is the zodiac 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 275 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,147 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 29 Historical Events
- 1587 –Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
- 1862 –American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
- 1864 –Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
- 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.
- 1951 –Tibetan delegates to the Central People’s Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
- 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.
- 2004 –Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
- 2011 –Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
Who were born on April 29?
- 1876 –Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
- 1908 –Jack Williamson, American writer (d. 2006)
- 1934 –Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1936 –April Stevens, American singer
- 1947 –Tommy James, American musician
- 1961 –Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyū
- 1967 –Curtis Joseph, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 –Master P, American rapper
- 1969 –İzel, Turkish singer
- 1978 –Craig Gower, Australian rugby league and union player
Who died on April 29?
- 1698 –Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
- 1782 –Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)
- 1903 –Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
- 1916 –The O'Rahilly, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (b. 1875)
- 1956 –Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
- 1967 –J. B. Lenoir, American musician (b. 1929)
- 1979 –Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
- 2007 –Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940)
- 2007 –Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
- 2008 –Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
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