Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 29
This is a list of selected April 29 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled April 29, 2012 featured article or the April 29, 2012 featured picture.
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Replica of the HM Bark Endeavour
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David Farragut
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1991 Bangladesh cyclone
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Ernst Werner von Siemens
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1882 – German inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens began operating his Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, in a Berlin suburb. | refimprove, lead too short |
| 1916 – First World War: Khalil Pasha of the Ottoman Army accepted the surrender of Major-General Charles Townshend and the British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, ending the Siege of Kut. | refimprove |
| 1945 – Second World War: Allied forces began dropping food into parts of the occupied Netherlands, with the acquiescence of the occupying German forces, to feed people who were in danger of starvation due to the Dutch famine. | refimprove |
| 1991 – A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. | refimprove |
| 1992 – The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American motorist Rodney King sparked civil unrest in Los Angeles that lasted for six days and killed over 50 people. | tagged {{POV}} |
| 1999 – Kosovo War: The Avala Tower on Avala mountain near Belgrade, Serbia, was destroyed by NATO bombardment in an attempt to put Radio Television of Serbia off the air. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1770 – British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour became the first European ship to land on Australia on the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, securing access into the Mississippi River.
- 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: The South Vietnamese Army launched incursions into Cambodia to attack communist jungle bases.
- 1975 – Vietnam War: American forces began evacuating U.S. citizens, Vietnamese and third country nationals from Saigon prior to the expected North Vietnamese takeover of the South Vietnam capital.
- 1997 – The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention went into effect, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in those countries that ratified the arms control agreement.
Notes
- Fall of Saigon (1975) appears on April 30
April 29: Arbor Day in the United States (2011); Easter Friday (Christianity, 2011)
- 1587 – Anglo-Spanish War: In the Bay of Cádiz, Francis Drake (pictured) led the first of several naval raids on the Spanish Armada that destroyed so many ships that Philip II of Spain had to delay his plans to invade England for over a year.
- 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
- 1945 – The Holocaust: The Seventh U.S. Army liberated Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, and allegedly wounded and killed German prisoners of war.
- 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened and indicted Hideki Tojo and 27 other Japanese leaders for war crimes.
- 2011 – A worldwide television audience of 300 million people watched the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
