April 29 - Events

Events

• 711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin theirinvasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
• 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
• 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.
• 1624 – In France, Richelieu assumes as Prime Minister of Louis XIII.
• 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
• 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1832 – Évariste Galois released from prison.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
• 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
• 1864 – The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
• 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.
• 1916 – Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to Britishauthorities in Dublin.
• 1945 – World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
• 1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
• 1945 – World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time 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.
• 1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
• 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
• 1946 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
• 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.
• 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• 1965 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in itsRehber series.
• 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of hisboxing title.
• 1968 – The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
• 1980 – Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
• 1986 – Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against theSeattle Mariners.
• 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.
• 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, 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.
• 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weaponsby its signatories.
• 1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
• 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.
• 2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.