What are the important events that happened on April 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 29: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 29 is the 120^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 16, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 476,208 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosagon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 275 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,147 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 29 Historical Events

• 1864 –
  Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
• 1903 –
  A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
• 1916 –
  World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• 1946 –
  The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
• 1951 –
  Tibetan delegates to the Central People’s Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
• 1953 –
  The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• 1974 –
  Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
• 1992 –
  Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
• 2004 –
  Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
• 2004 –
  Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.

Who were born on April 29?

• 1936 –
  Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1947 –
  Tommy James, American musician
• 1952 –
  Nora Dunn, American actress
• 1955 –
  Richard Epcar, American voice actor
• 1957 –
  Mark Kendall, American guitarist
• 1963 –
  Mike Babcock, NHL Coach
• 1967 –
  Master P, American rapper
• 1970 –
  China Forbes, American singer and songwriter (Pink Martini)
• 1974 –
  Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist
• 1981 –
  Alex Vincent, American actor

Who died on April 29?

• 1380 –
  Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
• 1933 –
  Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
• 1944 –
  Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1961 –
  Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
• 1979 –
  Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
• 2002 –
  Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
• 2004 –
  Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
• 2007 –
  Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1940)
• 2007 –
  Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
• 2008 –
  Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)