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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 16, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,745,884,800 seconds 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 ‘hectadecaenneagon’ day.
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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 294 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 4,512 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 29 Historical Events
- 1770 –James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
- 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.
- 1903 –A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
- 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: Start of Operation Manna.
- 1953 –The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
- 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.
- 2011 –Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
Who were born on April 29?
- 1863 –William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
- 1922 –Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz guitarist and harmonica player
- 1952 –Ron Washington, American baseball manager(Texas Rangers)
- 1955 –Gino Quilico, Canadian baritone
- 1957 –Mark Kendall, American guitarist
- 1957 –Timothy Treadwell, American ecologist (d. 2003)
- 1961 –Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyū
- 1964 –Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
- 1974 –Julian Knowle, Austrian tennis player
- 1974 –Pascal Cygan, French footballer
Who died on April 29?
- 1743 –Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
- 1771 –Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect (b. 1700)
- 1776 –Edward Wortley Montagu, British traveler and writer (b. 1713)
- 1798 –Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
- 1993 –Michael Gordon, American film director (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Sara Henderson, Australian pastoralist and author (b. 1936)
- 2005 –William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
- 2007 –Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940)
- 2007 –Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
- 2010 –A.S. Douglas, British computer scientist, creator of the first graphical computer game (b. 1921)
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