About April 29
April 29, 2025 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 29
- 711 –Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
- 1483 –Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.
- 1770 –James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
- 1832 –Évariste Galois released from prison.
- 1862 –American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
- 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 –Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
- 1945 –The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
- 1999 –The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- 2004 –Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
- 2005 –Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
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