29 Aprile

The 29t o Aprile is the 119t day o the year (120t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 246 days ti come.

Events

2011: Weddin o Prince William an Catherine

• 1429 – Joan o Arc arrives tae relieve the Siege o Orleans.
• 1482 – The Kinrick o Castile conquers Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.
• 1770 – James Cook arrives at an names Botany Bay, Australie.
• 1916 – Ireland's Pace Uprisin ends, as rebels surrender an mairtial law is liftit.
• 1945 – Dachau concentration camp is freed bi Unitit States troops.
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler an Eva Braun marry.
• 1991 – Bangladesh is hit bi a massive cyclone, killin an estimatit 138,000 fowk.
• 1991 – A train crash in Hunan province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills at least 200 fowk.
• 1992 – The Los Angeles riots stairt efter the acquittal o polis afficers for the beatin o Rodney King.
• 1999 – The Avala telly touer in Belgrade is destroyed bi NATO bombin.
• 2005 – Sirie troops complete their withdrawal frae Lebanon.
• 2011 – Prince William, Yerl o Strathearn an Catherine, Coontess o Strathearn marry at Wastmeenster Aibey.
• 2017 – The govrenment o Turkey blocks access tae Wikipaedia.
• 2018 – Amber Rudd propales her demission as the Breetish Hame Secretar efter a row ower immigration remuival tairgets; Sajid Javid replaces her.
• 2019 – Indonesie's govrenment propales its intention tae muive its caipital ceety oot o Jakarta.

Births

Uma Thurman

• 1798 – George Don, Scots botanist (d. 1856)
• 1817 – Adam White, Scots zoologist (d. 1878)
• 1818 – Alexander II o Roushie (d. 1881)
• 1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathemateecian an pheesicist (d. 1912)
• 1863 – Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek poet (d. 1933)
• 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American media tycoon (d. 1951)
• 1876 – Zauditu, Empress o Ethiopie (d. 1930)
• 1887 – Stanley Cursiter, Scots airtist (d. 1976)
• 1893 – Harold Urey, American pheesical chemist (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Duke Ellington, American pianist an jazz muisicker (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989)
• 1933 – Rod McKuen, American poet an componer (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Willie Nelson, American sangster
• 1936 – Zubin Mehta, Indie conductor
• 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American race caur driver (d. 2001)
• 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
• 1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, Breetish actor
• 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1968 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Preses o Croatie
• 1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
• 1978 – Mike Bryan, American tennis player
• 1978 – Bob Bryan, American tennis player
• 1987 – Sara Errani, Italian tennis player
• 1994 – Stephen Milne, Scots soummer

Daiths

• 1380 - Catherine o Siena, Italian saunt (b. 1347)
• 1648 - John Forbes, Scots meenister an theologian (b. 1593)
• 1663 - Princess Margaret Yolande o Savoy (b. 1635)
• 1921 - Annie Edson Taylor, American adventuress (b. 1838)
• 1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek poet (b. 1863)
• 1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrick philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1968 - Anthony Boucher, American science feection scriever (b. 1911)
• 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, Inglis film director (b. 1899)
• 1988 - Andrew Cruickshank, Scots actor (b. 1907)
• 2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (b. 1908)
• 2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss pheesicist (b. 1906)
• 2014 - Bob Hoskins, Inglis actor (b. 1942)
• 2014 - Walter Walsh, American FBI agent an Olympic shooter (b. 1907)
• 2018 - Michael Martin, Baron Martin o Springburn, Scots politeecian (b. 1945)
• 2019 - Stevie Chalmers, Scots fitbawer (b. 1935)
• 2021 - Pierce Fulton, American DJ, multi-instrumentalist an record producer (b. 1992)

Halidays

• Showa Day (Japan) - birthday o Emperor Hirohito