April 29
1429: Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English.
1623: 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru.
1661: Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1813: Rubber is patented.
1845: Macon B. Allen & Robert Morris Jr; First Blacks to open law practice.
1852: First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published.
1861: Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union.
1862: New Orleans falls to Union forces, during Civil War.
1913: Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback, of Hoboken, patents all-purpose zipper.
1930: Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service.
1936: First pro baseball game in Japan is played; Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5.
1945: U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
1946: 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
1957: First military nuclear power-plant dedicated; Fort Belvoir, VA.
1961: ABC's "Wide World of Sports" debuts.
1965: Australian government announces it will send troops to Vietnam.
1967: Aretha Franklin releases "Respect".
1970: 50,000 U.S. & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia.
1971: Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East.
1974: President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House.
1975: U.S. Forces pull out of Vietnam.
1983: Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's first Black mayor.
1985: 17th space-shuttle mission launched; Challenger 7.
1990: Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.
1992: Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King; riots begin.
Happy Birthday!!
Uma Thurman
