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

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

## Births

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