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 119^th 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, 484,968 hours 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.

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.

April 29 Historical Events

• 1429 –
  Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
• 1781 –
  American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
• 1903 –
  A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
• 1945 –
  The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
• 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.
• 1970 –
  Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
• 1986 –
  A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
• 1997 –
  The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

Who were born on April 29?

• 1810 –
  Thomas Adolphus Trollope, British author and journalist, (d. 1892)
• 1848 –
  Raja Ravi Varma,Indian painter (d.1906)
• 1854 –
  Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
• 1893 –
  Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• 1918 –
  George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
• 1934 –
  Otis Rush, American musician
• 1938 –
  Bernard Madoff, American convict, Ponzi scheme operator
• 1964 –
  Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council
• 1978 –
  Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, American tennis players
• 1984 –
  Taylor Cole, American actress

Who died on April 29?

• 1380 –
  Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
• 1676 –
  Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
• 1916 –
  Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
• 1933 –
  Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
• 1935 –
  Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
• 1966 –
  William Eccles, British physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
• 2004 –
  Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
• 2005 –
  Louis Leithold, American mathematician (b. 1924)
• 2005 –
  William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
• 2007 –
  Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)