This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
04/29/1584 Melchior Teschner, composer 
04/29/1642 Christian Weise, German writer (Niederl„ndische Bauer) 
04/29/1660 Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer 
04/29/1667 John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope) 
04/29/1727 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action) 
04/29/1745 Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800) 
04/29/1771 Matthaus Stegmayer, composer 
04/29/1780 Charles Nodier, French writer (La f‚e aux miettes) 
04/29/1806 Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician/philos

04/29/1815 Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 
04/29/1818 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-81) 
04/29/1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels 
04/29/1842 Karl Mill”cker, Austria conductor/composer (Up the Bettel student) 
04/29/1854 Henri Poincar‚, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher 
04/29/1855 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitch more) 
04/29/1855 Edmund van der Straeten, composer 
04/29/1857 Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e) 
04/29/1857 Frantisek Ondricek, composer 
04/29/1860 Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk) 
04/29/1862 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer 
04/29/1863 William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I) 
04/29/1871 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children

04/29/1872 Eyvind Alnaes, composer 
04/29/1879 Thomas Beecham, England, composer, found London Philharmonic 
04/29/1883 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer 
04/29/1885 Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter) 
04/29/1885 Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle) 
04/29/1893 Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsjeva], Bulgaria, poetess 
04/29/1893 Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934) 
04/29/1894 Paul H”rbiger, Austria actor (Liebelei) 
04/29/1895 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts) 
04/29/1896 Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer 
04/29/1899 Duke Ellington, Wash DC, [Edward Kennedy], bandleader (Take 'A' Trai

04/29/1899 Karl Yngve Skold, composer 
04/29/1899 Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality) 
04/29/1901 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89) 
04/29/1902 Theodore Chanler, composer 
04/29/1903 Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party) 
04/29/1904 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate 
04/29/1904 Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orch leader (Welcome Aboard) 
04/29/1907 Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia) 
04/29/1907 Tino Rossi, French singer 
04/29/1908 Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers) 
04/29/1909 Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch

04/29/1912 Richard Carlson, Mn, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi

04/29/1914 Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin) 
04/29/1915 Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers) 
04/29/1919 Celeste Holm, NYC, actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve) 
04/29/1920 Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera) 
04/29/1921 Cornelis de Jager, astronomer (Sun) 
04/29/1922 George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins) 
04/29/1922 Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971-  ) 
04/29/1922 Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes, Promises Promises) 
04/29/1922 Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer 
04/29/1923 Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again) 
04/29/1923 Maxine Audley, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards) 
04/29/1924 Ren‚e Jeanmaire, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson) 
04/29/1925 Ab Abspoel, actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator) 
04/29/1926 Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida) 
04/29/1927 Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948) 
04/29/1928 Carl Gardner, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin) 
04/29/1929 Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer 
04/29/1929 Vaclav Kucera, composer 
04/29/1929 Walter Kempowski, German writer (Tadell”ser & Wolff) 
04/29/1931 Lonnie Donegan, vocalist 
04/29/1931 William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando) 
04/29/1932 Alexei A Gubarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28) 
04/29/1933 Darijan Bozic, composer 
04/29/1933 Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street) 
04/29/1933 Rod Marvin McKuen, singer/composer/versifier (Alone, Beatsville) 
04/29/1934 Pedro Pires, premier (Cape Verde, 1975-  ) 
04/29/1935 Len Weinrib, NYC, comedian (Spike Jones Show) 
04/29/1935 Otto M Zykan, composer 
04/29/1936 April Stevens, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple) 
04/29/1936 Richard Lynch, actor (Xavier-Battlestar Galactica) 
04/29/1936 Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic) 
04/29/1942 Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Might Quinn) 
04/29/1943 Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira

04/29/1944 Jim Hart, Evanston, Ill, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals) 
04/29/1945 [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer (Ain't no Mt High) 
04/29/1947 Jim Ryun, US, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)

04/29/1947 Johnny Miller, golfer (1974 PGA Player of Year) 
04/29/1947 Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver) 
04/29/1948 Reb Brown, actor (Cage, Yor, Capt America, Fast Break) 
04/29/1949 Anita Dobson, England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders) 
04/29/1949 Eddie Hart, US, 100m runner (Olympic-1972) 
04/29/1949 Francis Rossi, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down) 
04/29/1952 Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)

04/29/1952 Nora Dunn, Chic Ill, comedienne (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl) 
04/29/1953 Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Russia, cosmonaut 
04/29/1954 Bill Paxon, (Rep-R-New York) 
04/29/1954 Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void) 
04/29/1954 Jerry Seinfeld, author (SeinLanguage)/comedian (Seinfeld) 
04/29/1955 Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Heartbeat, Kate Loves a Mystery

04/29/1956 Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star) 
04/29/1957 Richie Robertson, rocker (Fabulous Poodles) 
04/29/1958 Daniel Day-Lewis, English, actor (Last of the Mohicans) 
04/29/1958 Eve Plumb, Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Suck

04/29/1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City Calif, actress (Married to the Mob) 
04/29/1958 Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love) 
04/29/1960 Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes) 
04/29/1960 Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy) 
04/29/1967 Rachel Williams, Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle) 
04/29/1968 Carnie Wilson, singer (Wilson Phillips-Hold On) 
04/29/1970 Andre Agassi, US, tennis pro (US & French Open finalist-1990) 
04/29/1970 Uma Thurman, Boston Mass, actress (Baron Munchausen) 
04/29/1993 Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
04/29/ 852 Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76 
04/29/1499 John IV, army leader/earl of Egmont, dies 
04/29/1676 Michiel A the Ruyter, spy/fleet supervisor (Newport), dies 
04/29/1712 Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67 
04/29/1813 Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55 
04/29/1873 Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage), dies 
04/29/1905 Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57 
04/29/1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnisch murderer of arch duke French Ferdinand, di

04/29/1928 Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (Ich l”sche das Licht), dies 
04/29/1936 Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman, dies 
04/29/1943 Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56 
04/29/1943 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68 
04/29/1943 Sidney AK Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 
04/29/1947 Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80 
04/29/1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher 
04/29/1953 Mo‹se Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 6

04/29/1954 Earnest Heldring, merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82 
04/29/1956 Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75 
04/29/1957 Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82 
04/29/1964 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77 
04/29/1966 Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 
04/29/1967 Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies 
04/29/1973 Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82 
04/29/1976 Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 74 
04/29/1979 Julia Perry, composer, dies at 55 
04/29/1980 Alfred Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 
04/29/1986 Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies at 25 
04/29/1988 Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies 
04/29/1988 Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74 
04/29/1991 Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies 
04/29/1992 Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84 
04/29/1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies 
04/29/1993 Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83 
04/29/1993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 4

04/29/1994 Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 8

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
04/29/1091 Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petsjenegen 
04/29/1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English 
04/29/1522 Emperor Charles V named French van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlan

04/29/1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority 
04/29/1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England 
04/29/1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans 
04/29/1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan 
04/29/1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701 
04/29/1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time 
04/29/1784 Premiere of Mozarts Sonate in B mol, K454 (Vienna) 
04/29/1793 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall 
04/29/1813 Rubber is patented 
04/29/1834 Charles Darwins expedition sees top of Andes 
04/29/1845 Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice 
04/29/1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published 
04/29/1856 Peace between England & Russia 
04/29/1857 US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently established at Presidio (SF) 
04/29/1861 Asteroid 68-Leto & Asteroid 69-Hesperia discovered 
04/29/1861 Maryland's House of Delegates vote against seceding from Union 
04/29/1861 R Luther discovers asteroid #68 Leto 
04/29/1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss 
04/29/1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War 
04/29/1863 Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern) 
04/29/1864 -30] Skermish at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas 
04/29/1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens 
04/29/1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter 
04/29/1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest 
04/29/1902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #484 Pittsburghia 
04/29/1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta) 
04/29/1905 2' rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX 
04/29/1910 Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam 
04/29/1912 108ø F (42ø C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record) 
04/29/1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper 
04/29/1916 Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin 
04/29/1921 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #953 Painleva 
04/29/1922 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia) 
04/29/1925 Netherlands returns to gold standard 
04/29/1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I 
04/29/1927 Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed 
04/29/1930 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1268 Libya 
04/29/1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens 
04/29/1931 Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0 
04/29/1938 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1484 Postrema 
04/29/1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens 
04/29/1940 Norwegian king Haakon & govt flees to England 
04/29/1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio 
04/29/1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France 
04/29/1943 Dietrich Bonh”ffer arrested by nazis 
04/29/1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hagu

04/29/1945 1st food drop by RAF (operation Manna) 
04/29/1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun 
04/29/1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon 
04/29/1945 US liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany 
04/29/1946 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 
04/29/1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

04/29/1956 WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasti

04/29/1956 WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting 
04/29/1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va 
04/29/1961 ABC's 'Wide World of Sports, debuts 
04/29/1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT 
04/29/1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma 
04/29/1965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die 
04/29/1967 Aretha Franklin releases 'Respect' 
04/29/1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops land in Cambodia 
04/29/1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East 
04/29/1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration 
04/29/1975 Ethiopia nationalizes everything 
04/29/1975 Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead 
04/29/1975 US Forces pull out of Vietnam 
04/29/1976 Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water 
04/29/1981 Phillie Steve Carlton strikes out his 3,000th batter 
04/29/1982 Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador 
04/29/1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead 
04/29/1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor 
04/29/1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched 
04/29/1985 Tony Tubbs KOs Greg Page to win WBA heavyweight boxing championship 
04/29/1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library 
04/29/1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners 
04/29/1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle 
04/29/1987 Japans premier Nakasone visits the US 
04/29/1988 '60 Minutes' newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols 
04/29/1988 Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry 
04/29/1988 Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses 
04/29/1991 Croatia declares independence 
04/29/1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless 
04/29/1991 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100 
04/29/1992 'March of Falsettos & Falsettoland' opens on Broadway 
04/29/1992 1st day of LA riots-Acquittal of 4 white cops in Rodney King beating

04/29/1992 Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery 
04/29/1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage in Man of LaMancha 
04/29/1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps 
04/29/1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor, Kenya, kills over 300 
  
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