29 April
Notable Births
Mirra Andreeva
b. 2007
Russian tennis player (born 2007)
Infanta Sofía of Spain
b. 2007
Member of the Spanish royal family (born 2007)
Xochitl Gomez
b. 2006
American actress (born 2006)
Aarón Anselmino
b. 2005
Argentine footballer (born 2005)
Sinja Kraus
b. 2002
Austrian tennis player (born 2002)
Danilo (footballer, born 2001)
b. 2001
Brazilian footballer
Mateo Retegui
b. 1999
Footballer (born 1999)
Kimberly Birrell
b. 1998
Australian tennis player (born 1998)
Mallory Swanson
b. 1998
American soccer player (born 1998)
Lucas Tousart
b. 1997
French footballer (born 1997)
Katherine Langford
b. 1996
Australian actress (born 1996)
Adam Smith (footballer, born 1991)
b. 1991
English footballer
Jung Hye-sung
b. 1991
South Korean actress (born 1991)
Misaki Doi
b. 1991
Japanese tennis player (born 1991)
James Faulkner (cricketer)
b. 1990
Former Australian cricketer
Chris Johnson (basketball, born 1990)
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Candace Owens
b. 1989
American political commentator (born 1989)
Domagoj Vida
b. 1989
Croatian footballer (born 1989)
Uma Thurman
b. 1970
American actress (born 1970)
Duke Ellington
b. 1899
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
Notable Deaths
Padma Desai
d. 2023
Indian-American development economist (1931–2023)
Joanna Barnes
d. 2022
American actress and writer (1934–2022)
Irrfan Khan
d. 2020
Indian actor (1967–2020)
Josef Šural
d. 2019
Czech footballer (1990–2019)
Luis García Meza
d. 2018
57th President of Bolivia (1980–1981)
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn
d. 2018
British politician (1945–2018)
R. Vidyasagar Rao
d. 2017
Indian politician
Dmytro Hnatyuk
d. 2016
Soviet and Ukrainian singer and politician
Renato Corona
d. 2016
Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 to 2012
Jean Nidetch
d. 2015
American entrepreneur (1923–2015)
Calvin Peete
d. 2015
American professional golfer (1943–2015)
Dan Walker (politician)
d. 2015
Governor of Illinois from 1973 to 1977
Iveta Bartošová
d. 2014
Musical artist
Al Feldstein
d. 2014
American comics artist
Bob Hoskins
d. 2014
English actor (1942–2014)
Alex Elisala
d. 2013
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Pesah Grupper
d. 2013
Israeli politician (1924–2013)
Marianna Zachariadi
d. 2013
Greek pole vaulter (1990–2013)
Shukri Ghanem
d. 2012
Libyan Prime Minister (1942–2012)
Roland Moreno
d. 2012
French inventor, engineer, and author
On This Day in History
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2015
A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Baltimore Orioles
2013
A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013 Prague explosion
2013
National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
National Airlines Flight 102
2011
The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
2004
The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.
Oldsmobile
1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
Chemical Weapons Convention
1992
Riots in Los Angeles begin, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1992 Los Angeles riots
1991
A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1991 Bangladesh cyclone
1991
The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
1991 Racha earthquake
1986
A fire at the Central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
Los Angeles Public Library
1986
The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
Aircraft carrier
1986
An assembly of Sikhs, known as a Sarbat Khalsa, officially declare independence for a state of Khalistan.
Sikhs
1985
Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on STS-51-B.
Space Shuttle Challenger
1975
Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. This happens after the Bombing of Tan Son Nhut Air Base.
Operation Frequent Wind
1975
Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnam-held Trường Sa Islands.
People's Army of Vietnam
1974
Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
Watergate scandal
1970
Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an attempt to cut off supplies to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
Vietnam War
1967
After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
Muhammad Ali
1953
The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
3D television
1952
Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people.
Pan Am Flight 202