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- 1082 Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austria
- 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
- 1215 English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
- 1264 The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
- 1328 Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
- 1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V
- 1364 Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in Krakw, Poland.
- 1459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
- 1525 Battle at Böblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Württembergse farmers
- 1534 Württemberg becomes Lutheran
- 1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru.
- 1551 San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
- 1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris France
- 1588 French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.
- 1604 Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
- 1640 Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
- 1641 Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
- 1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
- 1689 King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
- 1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
- 1733 Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
- 1776 Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
- 1777 The first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)
- 1780 Charleston SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War)
- 1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers
- 1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
- 1821 The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
- 1849 Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
- 1862 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA
- 1862 U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1863 Battle of Raymond MS
- 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
- 1864 Battle of Todd's Tavern VA (Sheridan's Raid)
- 1864 Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River (Fort Darling)
- 1864 US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to Brigadier-General
- 1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
- 1870 Manitoba becomes a Canadian province
- 1870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
- 1870 The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
- 1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY
- 1881 In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
- 1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
- 1885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
- 1885 North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Mtis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
- 1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
- 1890 The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
- 1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
- 1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Netherlands
- 1897 Battle at Thessalië: Turkish army beats Greece
- 1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
- 1900 Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
- 1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
- 1901 President McKinley visits San Fransisco
- 1902 United Mine Workers leader John Mitchell leads his 147,000 anthracite coal workers out of the pits to begin a 5-month strike that cripples the United States
- 1908 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married" premieres in London
- 1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
- 1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
- 1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week"
- 1921 National Hospital Day first observed
- 1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
- 1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
- 1926 UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
- 1926 Umberto Nobile flies Airship Norge is first vessel to fly over the North Pole
- 1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
- 1928 Opium laws enforced
- 1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ
- 1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, first appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
- 1932 Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
- 1932 The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, NJ
- 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
- 1934 "Cocktails For Two" by Duke Ellington hits #1
- 1937 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Britain are crowned at Westminster Abbey
- 1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
- 1940 French mariners occupy St Maarten
- 1940 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
- 1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Meuse River
- 1941 British forces attempt to break out of Tobruk
- 1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
- 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer in Berlin.
- 1942 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
- 1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
- 1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
- 1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
- 1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until August 23, 1943
- 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
- 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender (WWII)
- 1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
- 1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brüx
- 1944 Krim purged of Nazi troops
- 1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
- 1946 Visitor posting - Helen was born
- 1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
- 1949 The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin.
- 1949 The first foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
- 1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state - the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
- 1951 The first H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
- 1952 Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
- 1955 The last portion of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes.
- 1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
- 1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40
- 1958 A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
- 1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
- 1959 Visitor posting - Rhonda Nice born - USA
- 1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
- 1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
- 1962 Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point.
- 1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
- 1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL
- 1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
- 1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
- 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- 1965 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
- 1966 Busch Memorial Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team and until 1987, the NFL team of the same name, opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1967 At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
- 1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- 1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington DC
- 1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed by the U S Senate as a Supreme Court justice
- 1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
- 1973 "Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull hits #92
- 1975 Mayagez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
- 1975 Visitor posting - MARRIED : Tinoy Manlolo Meran and Belen Magay Magada. - Philippines [email protected]
- 1975 The Cambodian Navy seizes the American merchant ship Mayaguez in international waters
- 1976 Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1
- 1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
- 1978 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female
- 1978 In Zare, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zare asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
- 1978 The U S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decides that hurricanes will no longer be given only female names
- 1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
- 1980 The first nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
- 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.
- 1981 Visitor posting - May 12, 1981 Richard's birthday
- 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Ftima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow."
- 1982 FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II
- 1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II
- 1983 Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA
- 1984 "White Horse" by Laid Back hits #26
- 1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole
- 1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for first time in 22 years
- 1984 Visitor posting - May 12 1984 Elizabeth Morales was brought into the world!
- 1984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
- 1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as first woman Conservative rabbi
- 1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is first to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat CA
- 1986 Kristeen Garcia is born.
- 1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
- 1989 A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on the very steep Cajon Pass in San Bernardino, California, killing four people.
- 1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
- 1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
- 1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
- 1990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Adamski - Killer
- 1990 Visitor posting - Jennifer Byron was born
- 1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
- 1992 The first Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
- 1993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands
- 1993 Visitor posting - Jacob Beausoleil was born. - USA
- 1993 Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
- 1993 NBC TV airs the final episode of the hit comedy Cheers
- 1993 Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II
- 1993 Visitor posting - Geordie was born !!
- 1994 UK opposition leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks.
- 1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
- 1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
- 1997 Visitor posting - David Walter is born
- 1997 Personal pposting - David Walter is born
- 1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
- 1997 Visitor posting - ~~~~Remi Kasen is born today~~~~ - USA
- 1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is first to swim from Cuba to Florida
- 1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
- 1999 David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
- 2002 Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
- 2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
- 2003 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
- 2006 Justin Gatlin ties the 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.77 seconds in Doha, Qatar.
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