History for April 29 - On-This-Day.com:
William Randolph Hearst 1863 - American newspaper magnate, newspaper publisher, Hirohito (Emperor Showa) 1901 - 124th Japanese emperor, emperor from 1926 to 1989, Rod McKuen 1933 - Poet
Willie Nelson 1933 - Musician, singer - his family cites April 29, his birth certificate says April 30 at 12:30am, Dale Earnhardt 1951 - Father of race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jerry Seinfeld 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Seinfeld")
1429 - Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.
1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.
1945 - In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.
1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.
1952 - IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.
1961 - ABC’s "Wide World of Sports" premiered.
1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.
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